ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Larney Grenfell,
Witta, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each with some vague pale short diagonal lines, including a pinkish one into the wingtip. The hindwings are brown, with some yellow hairs along the hindmargins. The antennae are longer than the forewings. The wingspan of the moths is about 1.3 cms.
The species occurs in Australia in
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), p. 590, No. 169.
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(written 25 December 2018, updated 29 August 2022)