Scieropepla trinervis Meyrick, 1904 XYLORYCTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Daniel Heald, Baldivis, Western Austrlia)

The adult moths of this species have dark brown forewings, each with a white stripe along the costa, another along the hind margin, and with a curvy forked broad white stripe extending from the base to the wingtip and the tornus. The hindwings are off-white, shading to pale brown toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera, XVIII, Gelechiadae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 29 (1904), p. 395, No. 214.

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(written 19 November 2023)