WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dion Maple,
Old Erowal Bay, New South Wales)
The adult moth has yellow forewings, each with two dark spots. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the margins. The head is white, and the thorax and abdomen are pale brown. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.3 cms.
The species is found in Australia in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I:
The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, pp. 305-309.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XII Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 7 (1883), p. 491, No. 53.
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(written 9 April 2019, updated 31 January 203)