CARPOSINIDAE, COPROMORPHOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has off-white forewings, each with a scattering of grey-brown dots. The hindwings are white. The body is orange, but covered in white hair. It has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
Contributions to our knowledge of Australian Microlepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 57, (1947), pp. 67-68.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 28 December 2018)