![]() | WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moth of this species has white forewings. The hindwings are pale brown darkening at the wing-tips. The antennae, head, thorax, and legs are white. The labial palps are dark brown with short white hairs. The abdomen is dark grey fading to white toward the tip, with a white tuft on the tip. The legs have long white hairs. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms.
The species is found in the eastern half of Australia, including:
This species is superficially similar to Thema holoxesta, but Zacorus carus has only short hairs on dark labial palps, but does have white hairy legs.
Further reading :
Arthur G. Butler,
On a small collection of Lepidoptera from Melbourne,
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Fifth Series, Volume IX, Part 50 (1882), p. 103.
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. xii, 337-340, 347.
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(updated 1 November 2012, 14 October 2024)