Petalanthes hexastera Meyrick, 1883 EULECHRIA GROUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Stuart Harris, Molonglo Valley, Australian Capital Territory)

The forewings of the adult moths of this species are dark brown with pale markings including a white spot in the middle of each forewing. Each hindwings is dark brown with three yellow and white patches. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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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. 370, 372-373.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera IX Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 8, Number 3 (1883), pp. 336-337, No. 124.

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(written 4 February 2017, updated 25 October 2018, 25 October 2020, 6 November 2021)