(previously known as Eulechria calotroph) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)
This adult moth has off-white forewings each with a variety of dark brown markings. The head is topped by white scales, and the prothorax is dark brown. The hindwings are plain pale brown.
The eggs are oval with a length of about 0.7 mm, and are covered in a microscopic square mesh.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I:
The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, pp. 21, 281, 290-294, figs. 542, 548.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. VIII. Oecophoriidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1883), p. 512, 536-537. No. 95.
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(writtem 23 January 2022)