| (formerly known as Oecophora eusema) OTHER OECOPHORINAE OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The moths of this species have brown forewings each with two dark spots, and a dark border to the thorax. The hindwings are brown darkening toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia III:
The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 8,
CSIRO Publishing, 2000, p. 407, 409-411, 416.
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 25 (1900), pp. 413-414.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 2 December 2018)