Opostega orestias Meyrick, 1880 OPOSTEGIDAE,   NEPTICULOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Maleny, Queensland)

This moth has off-white forewings, each with a brown mark near the middle of the hindmargin. The forewing tips are brownish, each with a prominent black dot. The hindwings are white. The moth has a wingspan of about 0.7 cm.

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

In Australia: this moth has been found in :

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. III. Tineina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 5, Number 2 (1880), p. 175.

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(written 20 April 2019, 20 May 2024)