Stathmopoda lethonoa Meyrick, 1897 STATHMOPODINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Freshwater Creek, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have white and yellow forewings each with three brown patches on the hindmargin and a brown line along the costa. The hindwings are a shiny pale brown. Each wing has an extensive hairy fringe to the hind margin. The wingspan is about 1.2 cm.

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

The species has been found in

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera XVII Elachistidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), p. 322, No. 45.

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(written 14 April 2024)