Glaphyristis marmarea Meyrick, 1897 COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Victor W Fazio III, Tinonee, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings which each have a pale stripe along the costa. The hindwings are plain brown. The wings loose their scales very easily. The abdomen is yellow. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

(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 Microlepidoptera XVII: Elachistidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), p. 357, No. 112.

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(updated 15 April 2022)