Cosmopterix macrula (Meyrick, 1897) (formerly known as Cosmopteryx macrula) COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moths have dark brown forewings, each with some white lines and a white-edged gold patch near the middle. The hindwings are brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species occurs in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. I,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22, Part 2 (1897), pp. 339-340, No. 81.

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(written 8 October 2014, updated 21 July 2019)