Mychonoa mesozona Meyrick, 1893 (one synonym is Leuroptila tephropasta Turner, 1923) PLUTELLIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas Fisher, Lismore, New South Wales)

This adult moth has off-white forewings, each with variable scattered brown dots and one or two diagonal bands. The hindwings are off-white shading to pale brown toward the wingtips, with brown veins. The moth has a wingspan of about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

New South Wales.

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

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Number 4 (1892), p. 559, No. 122.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Microlepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), p. 172

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(written 2 November 2018, updated 2 June 2025)