Dichomeris plasticus (Meyrick, 1904)
 (formerly known as Ypsolophus plasticus)
DICHOMERINAE,   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 brown forewings each with a dark spot on the hind-margin near the tornus. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening at the wing-tips. The hindwings each have a concave margin. The wingspan is about 1.7 cms.

The species has been found in

  • New South Wales (listed as Telephila plasticus).

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVIII. Gelechiadae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 29 (1904), p. 433, No. 270.

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    (written 4 September 2024)