Epermenia exilis Meyrick, 1897 Shark Moth EPERMENIIDAE,   EPERMENIOIDEA

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

(Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

This adult moth has brown forewings, each with a vague incomplete split orangish stripe, and a wide scattering of dark dots, including a series of four dark dots along the hind margin. The hindwings are grey, becoming brown towards the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in

South Australia.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera XVII Elachistidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), p. 431, No. 253.

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(written 16 April 2017, updated 12 April 2022)