Thalamarchella alveola (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) (previously known as Cryptolechia alveola) DEPRESSARIINAE,   DEPRESSARIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

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

This adult moth has pale yellow forewings, each darkening towards the margin, and crossed by a bold black network pattern. The hindwings are brown with chequered hairs around the margins. The thorax and abdomen are brown, and the head yellow.

female, listed as Cryptolechia alveola,
drawing by Peter Carl Friedrich Geyer for Rudolf Felder & Alois Rogenhofer,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXL, fig. 35,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in:

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 7, and also Plate 140, fig. 35.

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(updated 1 November 2012, 26 October 2026)