Palaeodes samealis Hampson, 1913
 TINEODIDAE,   ALUCITOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Debbie Matthews & Stella Crossley


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

The caterpillar of this species is reported to feed on :

  • Australian Jasmine ( Jasminum volubile , OLEACEAE ).


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

    The adult moths have undivided wings with hooked wingtips. The wings are brown bearing a mottled pattern including a vague dark band across each one. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

    The species occurs in

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 30.6, p. 325.

    George F. Hampson,
    Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
    Series 8, Volume xii (1913), pp. 318-319.

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    (updated 25 January 2012, 19 Novemeber 2020)