Sclerocris chalcoxantha (Turner, 1938) (previously known as Eulechria chalcoxantha) EULECHRIA GROUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of D.P. Rees, Tharwa, Australian Capital Territory)

The forewings of the adult moth of this species are yellow, each crossed by four black bands: one at the base, an incomplete antemedial band, a postmrdia. and a marginal band. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia II: The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, 1997, p. 379.

A. Jefferis Turner,
SRevision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. VII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 63 (1938), p. 53, No. 888.

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(written 29 May 2026)