| (one synonym is Diaphorodes euryscia Turner, 1946) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
This adult moth of this species has a white head, and brown forewings each with a dark spot near the middle. The forewings have slightly recurved margins. The hindwings are off-white with brown veins. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found 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. 142, 308, 317-320.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 41 (1917), p. 107.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 23 January 2022)