![]() | XYLORYCTIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Ravensthorpe, Western Australia)
The adult moths of this species have forewings that each have a brown pattern with a broad irregular white stripe along the costa, and a white patch at the tornus. The hindwings are fawn. It has a white head and thorax The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
Ian McMillan,
Cryptophasa argyrocolla, Xyloryctine Moths of Australia,
Blog, Saturday, September 18, 2010.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Lepidopterological gleanings,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 29 (1917), p. 93.
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(written 24 January 2021)