| Philobota mathematica Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| Philobota mathematica Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has pale brown forewings which each have a white edged dark brown line along the costa, and some variable scattered brown marks. The hindwings are pale brown. The head and thorax are off-white, although the sides of the thorax are brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
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, p. 282.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera XV Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 3 (1889), p. 1607.
Francis Walker,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae XII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 64 (1944), p. 260.
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(written 1 December 2019)