| TINEINAE, TINEIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Landcare Research Ltd., New Zealand)
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| TINEINAE, TINEIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Landcare Research Ltd., New Zealand)
The adult moth has forewings that are a patchy pale brown, with dark brown wing tips. The hindwings are pale brown. The moth has a wingspan of about 1 cm.
The species is rare,specimens having been taken in
and in Australia in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVI: Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Part 4 (1891), p. 536, No. 81.
Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne (1993), Fig. 719, pp. 731-734.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 24 August 2004)