Philobota mathematica

Philobota mathematica (Meyrick, 1883)
PHILOBOTA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA

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

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

The forewings of the adult moth of this species are each fawn with a speckling of small darker spots, a triangular dark mark near the middle of the costa, and a dark band around the base. The hindwings are off-white darkening towards the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

showing underside
(Photo: courtesy of Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

The name Philobota mathematica Group is applied to a set of related species in the genus Philobota which includes

Philobota cosmocrates,

Philobota crypsichola,

Philobota delochorda,

Philobota dysphorata,

Philobota ennephela,

Philobota futilis,

Philobota latifissella,

Philobota lysizona,

Philobota marcens,

Philobota mathematica,

Philobota melanoxantha,

Philobota microxantha,

Philobota nephelarcha,

Philobota obliviosa,

Philobota perixantha,

Philobota phaeodelta,

Philobota prepodes,

Philobota thiocrossa,

Philobota thiogramma,

Philobota xanthodisca, and

Philobota xiphistola.

Further Reading:

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia II: The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, 1997, pp. 268, 273, 281, 282, 284.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera: Part IX Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 8, Part 4 (1884), p. 488, No. 200.

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(written 17 September 2018, updated 9 October 2018, 1 December 2019)