(one synonym : Philobota ceratochroa Turner, 1917) BAREA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian McMillan,
Imbil, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species of have yellow forewings with brown squiggles and dots on each one. The hindwings are grey-brown.
The species has been found in:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia III:
The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 8,
CSIRO Publishing, 2000, pp. 210, 219-223.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera: Part XI,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 9, Part 3 (1884), pp. 785-786.
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(written 13 October 2014, updated 18 January 2015, 15 August 2019)