Heteroptolis leucosta (Lower, 1892)
 (formerly known as Palparia leucosta)
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Heteroptolis leucosta
(Photo: courtesy of Ned Fish , Ngarkat, South Australia)

The adult moths of this species have rusty brown forewings each with a narrow pale line along the costa. The hindwings are dark brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • Victoria, and
  • South Australia.

    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. 217, 219-221.

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of New South Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 15 (1892), p. 10.

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    (written 26 November 2022, updated 31 January 2023)