| (previously known as Sentica glabrella) PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Peter Marriott, Riddells Creek, Victoria)
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| (previously known as Sentica glabrella) PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Peter Marriott, Riddells Creek, Victoria)
The adult has an orange head, black thorax, black forewings, each with a white area at the base, three irregular broken sometimes incomplete transverse white bands, and sometimes a white mark near the wingtip. The hindwings are pale brown with darker wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Francis Walker,
Tortricites & Tineites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 28 (1863), p. 508.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 24 January 2017, updated 15 August 2019)