Habroscopa idiocosma (Turner, 1898) (formerly known as Peltophora idiocosma) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The forewings of the adult moth of this species are off-white each with four diagonal brown bars which merge near the margins, arching over a flat brown triangle on the distal half of the costa. The hindwings are off-white with brown veins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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

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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.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Descriptions of new Microlepidoptera from Queensland,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 22 (1898), p. 210.

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(written 4 January 2026)