Pedois cosmopoda (Turner, 1900)
 DEPRESSARIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth of this species has off-white forewings each with many incomplete brown angled stripes. The hindwings are off-white, shading to brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

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

    Further reading :

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Micro-lepidoptera — mostly from Queensland,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 24 (1900), pp. 12-13.

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    (updated 31 May 2010)