Azaleodes megaceros Nielsen, 1987 PALAEPHATIDAE,   PALAEPHATOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Nick Lambert, Valery, New South Wales)

The forewings of the adult moth of this species have pale brown forewings, each with a scattering of dark dots, and a vague dark diagonal band from the wingtip to the middle of the hind-margin. The hindwings are pale brown.

oops: no abdomen
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen,
The recently discovered primitive (non-Ditrysian) family Palaephatidae (Lepidoptera) in Australia,
Invertebrate Taxonomy,
Volume 1 (1987), p. 223.

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(written 20 April 2019, updated 20 July 2022)