Barea semocausta (Meyrick, 1883)
 (one synonym is Enchronista bathrosticha Turner, 927)
BAREA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Barea semocausta
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The moths of this species have a complex pattern of light and dark brown on each forewing. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

  • Victoria, and
  • Tasmania.

    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, p. 170.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera IX Oecophoridae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 8, Part 3 (1883), p. 350, No. 130.

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    (written 12 January 2022)