(also known as Micrerethista nigrapex Davis, 1998) HARMACLONINAE, TINEIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)
The adult moth of this species has grey forewings, each with arcs of dark speckles, and with dark splodges near the wingtip and the tornus. There is an erectable set of scales just behind the thorax. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993.
Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2, Parts 2-3 (1917), pp. 87-89.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 50.
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(written 3 December 2014, updated 10 October 2018)