Corynaea dilechria Turner, 1919 GELECHIINAE,   GELECHIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

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

The adult moths of this species have dark brown forewings, each with an incomplete pale transverse band near the margin. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
The Australian Gelechianae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 31 (1919), p. 130.

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(written 29 March 2019)