Ardozyga scytina (Meyrick, 1904)
 (formerly known as Protolechia scytina)
GELECHIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Ardozyga scytina
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Freshwater Creek, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings each with two dark spots, and dawk band along the margin. The hindwings are a shiny pale brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales
  • Victoria, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVIII: Gelechiadae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 29 (1904), p. 374, No. 182.

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    (written 11 June 2026)