Glyphipterix cometophora Meyrick, 1880 GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Morwell National Park, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have forewings that are brown, each with two incomplete white bands, and a pattern of radiating brown and white stripes in the marginal half. The hindwings are plain brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.6 cms.

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

The species is found in

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 5, (1880), pp. 231-232.

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(written 15 January 2017, updated 19 January 2023)