Lepidoscia chloropetala Meyrick, 1893 PSYCHIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

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

The male adult moths of this species have dark brown forewings, each with two large off-white transverse bands. The hindwings are grey. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Part 4 (1893), pp. 511-512, No. 45.

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(written 27 January 2019)