| (one synonym : Philobota pycnotypa Turner, 1944) Philobota arabella Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Christine Darwood, Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moth of this species has off-white or grey forewings which have a pattern of dark brown spots and lines. The hindwings are off-white darkening toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 3 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. 287.
Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), pp. 48-49.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera: XV Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 3 (1889), pp. 1614-1615, No. 648 (205b).
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae XII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 69 (1944), pp. 260-261, No. 1726.
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(written 7 June 2018, updated 19 March 2021)