Elachista carcharota Kaila, 2011 (also known as Atachia carcharota) ELACHISTINAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Cathy Powers, Little Desert, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have off-white speckled forewings, each with several dark spots. The moths have a wingspan of about 0.6 cm.

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

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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Further reading

Lauri Kaila,
Elachistine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Vol. 11,
CSIRO Publishing, 2011, p. 102.

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(written 15 July 2022)