(previously known as Philobota squalidella) BAREA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Kristi Ellingsen & Tony Daley,
Insects of Tasmania)
The adult moth has brown forewings, each with black and white patches. The hindwings are off-white shading to pale brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
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. 111-116.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, X Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 8, Part 4 (1884), p. 496, No. 213.
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(written 13 February 2017, updated 15 August 2019)