PLUTELLIDAE, YPONOMEUTOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has off-white forewings, each with many brown spots of a variety of sizes. The hindwings are white, shading to pale brown at the wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.2 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in:
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1907), p. 136, No. 269.
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(written 7 August 2022)