Philobota transversella (Walker, 1864) (one synonym is Philobota capnochroa Lower, 1920) Philobota arabella Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

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

The adult moths of this species are off-white, with forewings that each have a dark base, some sparse brown speckles, some dark spots, and usually a dark area at the base, and a long dark triangle on the costa. The hindwings are of-white shading to pale brown at the wingtips. The moths reach a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in Australia in:

South Australia.

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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, pp. 277, 289

Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 44 (1920), p. 62.

Francis Walker,
Tineites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 29 (1864), pp. 763, No. 143.

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(written 5 December 2018, updated 30 September 2024)