Micrerethista nigrapex Davis, 1998
 HARMACLONINAE,   TINEIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Jeff Triplett, Greenvale, Victoria)

The adult moth of this species has grey forewings, each with arcs of dark speckles, and with dark splodges near the wingtip and the tornus. The head is covered in fuzzy grey scales, and there are erectable sets of scales just behind the thorax, and along the forewing hind margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.


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

The species has been found in :

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    Further reading :

    Donald R. Davis,
    A world classification of the Harmacloninae, a new subfamily of the Tineidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea),
    Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Volume 597 (1998), pp. i-iii, 1-81.

    Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
    Tineid Genera of Australia,
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993.

    Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
    A Guide to Australian Moths,
    CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 50.

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    (written 3 December 2014, updated 4 September 2025)