Microbela allocoma Meyrick, 1885 PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Cath Busby, Mount Painter, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth of this species has yellow forewings, each of which have a grey-brown margin. The hindwings are brown. The head and thorax are yellow, although the thorax may have some variable brown marks. As with other Microbela species, the labial palps are shorter than those of other genera in the OECOPHORINAE. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

Victoria.

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Further Reading:

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XII Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 9, Number 4 (1885), pp. 1046-1047, No. 351.

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(written 14 November 2019, updated 15 October 2020)