Agriophara confertella (Walker, 1864) (erroneously known as Agriophora confertella) STENOMATINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley & Peter Marriott

(Photo: courtesy of Steve Bok, Jerrabomberra, New South Wales)

The adult moth has dull grey forewings and plain brown hindwings. A broken dark grey line runs from the base to the margin of each forewing. The moths have a wing span of about 2.5 cms.

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

The species may be found along most of the eastern side of Australia, including:

Victoria.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,  
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 23.17, p. 231.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 29 (1864), p. 758.

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