Bondia attenuatana Meyrick, 1882 CARPOSINIDAE,   COPROMORPHOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Jack Crosbie, Sydney, New South Wales)

The adult moth has dark brown forewings, each with an obscure pattern, and a number of elevated tufts. The hindwings are off-white, with grey wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 0.8 cm.

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

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Jack Crosbie, Sydney, New South Wales)

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. VII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7 (1882), pp. 183-184, No. 3.

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(written 1 December 2022, 19 February 2026)