PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nick Lambert,
Glen Elgin, New South Wales)
The forewings of the adult moth of this species have a yellow head and thorax, and pale yellow forewings, each with two bent brown lines, and a brown streak along most of the costa. The hindwings are grey-brown. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further Reading:
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia II:
The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, 1997, p. 290.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera: Part X,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 8, Part 4 (1884), pp. 471, 492-493, No. 207 (8a).
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(written 26 November 2019, updated 22 January 2021)