Glyphipterix iometalla Meyrick, 1880
GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have forewings that are brown, each with several white bands and a complicated pattern in the marginal half. The hindwings are plain brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 0.6 cm.


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

The species is found in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 5, (1880), pp. 232-233.


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    (updated 5 May 2011, 19 January 2023)