Macrobathra platychroa Lower, 1897 COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Majura, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths have black forewings with four white bars. The hindwings are brown. The head is white. The wingspan is about 1.5 cm.

(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Majura, Australian Capital Territory)

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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

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Further reading

Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), p. 270.

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(written 7 October 2023)