| (formerly known as Eulechria melanoglypta) Philobota arabella Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have brown patterned forewings, each including a dark area around the base, and including a broad vague white arc studded with some dark spots, curving from the costa near the base, to the costa near the wingtip. The hindwings are pale yellow. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.
The species has been found in Australia 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. 288.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XV,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 3 (1889), p. 1614, No. 647 (205b).
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 3 December 2018, 20 January 2021)