Ardozyga megalommata (Meyrick, 1904) (formerly known as Protolechia megalommata) GELECHIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Nick Lambert, Valery, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings each with two large white-outlined dark ovals. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the wing-tips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cm.

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

The species is found in Australia in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVIII: Gelechiadae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 29 (1904), pp. 384, No. 173.

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(written 30 April 2020)