Amphithera heteromorpha Meyrick, 1893 ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE,   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 are speckled brown, with two vague dark lines along each forewing. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the wingtips. The antennae are longer than the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

The species occurs in Australia in

Tasmania.

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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, Number 4 (1892), pp. 597-598, No. 179.

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(written 25 December 2018, updated 27 December 2020)