Cosmaresta charaxias (Meyrick, 1889)
 (previously known as Peltophora charaxias)
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Cosmaresta charaxias
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)

This adult moth has white forewings, each with a bold pattern of black markings. The hindwings are plain white. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • Tasmania.

    Cosmaresta charaxias
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of Aila Keto, Springbrook, Queensland)

    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. 98, 100, 101.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 3 (1889), pp. 1641-1642.

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    (updated 1 November 2012, 10 January 2015, 25 July 2019)