Thalamarchella alveola (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) (previously known as Cryptolechia alveola) 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, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Cryptolechia alveola,
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)