Agriophara cinderella

Agriophara cinderella (Newman, 1856)
(previously known as Chimabacche cinderella)
STENOMATINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA

Agriophara cinderella
(Photo: courtesy of David Fischer, Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species are grey with dark speckles on each forewing. The hindwings are pale grey.

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

The species has been found in:

drawing by Edward Newman and G.H. Ford, listed as Chimabacche cinderella,
Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, Collected by Mr. Thomas R. Oxley,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
New Series, Volume 3 (1856), Plate XVIII, fig. 6,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Edward Newman,
Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, Collected by Mr. Thomas R. Oxley,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
New Series, Volume 3, Number 8 (1856), p. 288, and also Plate 18, fig. 6.

Australian
Australian Butterflies

Australian
Australian Moths

(written 18 May 2011, updated 16 August 2019, 10 January 2022)