(one synonym : Borkhausenia tetraphaea Turner, 1916) BAREA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Elaine McDonald,
Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)
The adult moths of this species of have off-white forewings each with a dark brown base, an irregular brown patch on the hind margin, and an irregular brown 'V' shaped transverse band adjacent to the margin. The hindwings are grey-brown. The head is off-white, and the thorax dark brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species has been found in:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia III:
The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 8,
CSIRO Publishing, 2000, pp. 100, 102-103, 111.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. XII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 10, Part 4 (1886), pp. 780-781, No. 432.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Microlepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 41 (1916), pp. 337-338.
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(written 19 July 2019)