Phytotrypa propriella (Walker, 1864) (one synonym: Philobota campyla Meyrick, 1889) WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Stuart Harris, Black Mountain, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth of this species has forewings which are brown, usually with three white stripes: one along the costa, one along the middle of the wing from base to margin, and short one near the tornus. There is a brown comma mark near the middle of the central white stripe. The hindwings are pale brown, shading darker toward the wingtips. The head is yellow. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

South Australia.

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Further reading:

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I: The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, p. 206.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XV Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 3, Part 4 (1889), pp. 1617-1618, No. 691.

Francis Walker,
Tineites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 29 (1864), p. 691.

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(written 16 October 2018, updated 10 October 2023)