STATHMOPODINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (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 yellow forewings each with a dark brown stripe along the basal half of the costa, a brown patch along the margin, and two brown patches on the hind-margin. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera XVII Elachistidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), pp. 328-329, No. 60.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 29 June 2019)