Schistocyttara nebulosa Turner, 1942 COPROMORPHIDAE,   COPROMORPHOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas Fisher, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland)

The adult moths have off-white forewings each with brown markings on the costa and also on the hind-margin. The hindwings are off-white with fawn veins. The moth can erect a set of scales on the thorax. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

New South Wales.

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Further reading:

A. Jefferis Turner,
Fragmenta lepidopterologica,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 53 (1942), p. 96.

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(written 24 July 2019, updated 8 June 2021)