Hestiaula rhodacris Meyrick, 1893
ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(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.


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

The species occurs in Australia in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    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.


    previous
    back
    caterpillar
    Australian
    Australian Butterflies
    butterflies
    Australian
    home
    Lepidoptera
    Australian
    Australian Moths
    moths
    next
    next
    caterpillar

    (written 25 December 2018, updated 29 August 2022)