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 three large dark spots, and lots of small brown spots along the costa and hind-margin. The hindwings are pale brown, shading darker at the wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in:
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Microlepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), p. 173.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 22 April 2019)