Dascia sagittifera Meyrick, 1893 LYONETIINAE,   LYONETIIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of James Duggan, Calverts Lagoon, Tasmania)

The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings, each with variable irregular dark brown markings. The head has a white fuzzy topknot. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.2 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVI Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 17 (1893), pp. 579-580.

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(written 4 January 2019, updated 4 March 2024)