Bleptochiton leucotrigona Turner, 1947 DEPRESSARIINAE,   DEPRESSARIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Axel Kallies, Tarzali, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each having a white triangle on the costa. The hindwings are brown with a large yellow are along the costa. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XIV,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 72 (1947), p. 151, No. 2214.

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(written 27 December 2018, updated 18 May 2026)