Opostega brithys Turner, 1923 OPOSTEGIDAE,   NEPTICULOIDEA

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

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

This moth has white forewings, each with dark smudge near the middle, a black wingtip containing a silver band, and dark marks along the costa and hindmargin. The hindwings are white with black wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

In Australia: this moth has been found in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), p. 179.

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(written 31 December 2018)