Chionogenes trimetra Meyrick, 1913 YPONOMEUTINAE,   YPONOMEUTIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of ANIC/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species have shiny white forewings, each with some brown veins, and with brown marks on the costa by the wingtip, and along the margin. The hindwings are white. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

The species occurs in Australia in

Queensland.

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

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
HYponomeutidae
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1913), p. 144.

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(written 31 March 2019)