GELECHIIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Cathy Powers,
Kennett River, Victoria)
The adult moths of this species have white forewings each with a dark brown patch at the middle of the hind-margin, and also another dark brown patch on the costa by the wingtip, that is crossed by several white diagonal stripes. The hindwings are off-white, shading to brown at the wingtips. The hindwing margins are recurved near the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVIII: Gelechiadae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 29 (1904), pp. 323-324, No. 105.
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(written 3 September 2024)