(Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Concord, New South Wales)

The adult moth has split wings, like those of the family PTEROPHORIDAE. It has a wingspan of about 1 cm.

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

Specimens have been caught in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 325.

Graham J. McDonald,
Moths - The Weird and the Wonderful,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 68 (March 2013), pp. 13-16.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 30 (1864), p. 945, No. 56.

Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths, CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 121.

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(updated 19 May 2011, 5 August 2024)