Macrobathra callipetala Turner, 1932 COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have black forewings with bold white patches. The hindwings are brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species occurs in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. I,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 57 (1932), pp. 271-272, No. 54.

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(written 3 February 2013)