Lepidoscia retinochra (Lower, 1903) (formerly: Xysmatodoma retinochra) 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 adult moths of this species have purplish dark-brown forewings, each with four pale yellow transverse bands. The hindwings are grey-brown. The head is yellow and the thorax dark brown. The wingspan of the male moth is about 1.4 cms.

The species has been found in

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New Australian Noctuina, etc.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), pp. 71-72.

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(written 10 April 2019)