| (previously known as Crossophora aetodes) CHEZALA GOUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
digitally repaired
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has grey forewings that each have two vague transverse bands, and a single dark spot and a double dark spot near the middle. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species has been found in:
Further Reading:
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine genera of Australia II:
The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, 1997, pp. 150, 152-154.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. XV. Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 3, Issue 4 (1889), p. 1673, No. 743 (472a).
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 15 January 2019)