Idiozancla pycnosticha Turner, 1936
 WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Rog Standen, Big Desert, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings each with a dozen narrow dark stripes interrupted by two well spaced dark spots. The hindwings are pale grey shading darker at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.8 cms.


(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been reported in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    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. 182, 189, 190.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. V.,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 61 (1936), pp. 315-316, No. 513.

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    (written 5 September 2024, updated 6 September 2024)