(previously known as Pleurota tephrina) CHEZALA GOUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Cathy Powers,
Brisbane Ranges, Victoria)
The forewings of the adult moth of this species have streaky fawn forewings, each with darker streaks along the costa, along the middle of the wings, and along the hind margin. The hindwings are a paler fawn, shading darker at the margins. The second segments of the labial palps are prominently clothed in expanded scales, and the terminal segments long and upcurved. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia II:
The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, 1997, pp. 166-171.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. XI. Oecophoriidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 9, Part 3 (1884), pp. 748, 750-751, No. 286.
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(written 4 May 2020)