Hoplophanes aërodes Lower HELIOZELIDAE,   ADELOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Lucinda Gibson, Museums Victoria)

The forewings of the adult moth have off-white forewings, each an irregular broad pale brown streak along the costa and along the hind-margin, and pale brown marginal and submarginal bands. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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(Photo: courtesy of Lucinda Gibson, Museums Victoria)

The species has been reported in Australia in

New South Wales.

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Further reading:

Could find no references in the literature to this species, except possibly:

Eulechria aërodes Meyrick 1883 :-

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera IX Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 8, (1883), p. 321, No. 109.

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(written 26 April 2019, updated 17 April 2026)