(one synonym is Carposina poliosticha Turner, 1947) CARPOSINIDAE, COPROMORPHOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
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Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with pale markings including a set of pale grey ovals along the costa and around the margin. The hindwings are off-white with dark veins. The brown scales along the forewing costas can be raised as a set of tufts. The forewing hindmargins are concave. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
Contributions to our knowledge of Australian Microlepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 57 (1947), p. 65.
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(written 2 June 2019, updated 31 July 2021)