Trachydora chrysodoxa Meyrick, 1915 CHRYSOPELEIINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Simon Ong, Douglas-Daly, Northern Territory)

The adult moths of this species have yellow forewings which have several dark lines, and several tuft of scales sticking up. The hindwings are grey. The antennae are nearly as long as the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

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 :

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1915), p. 332.

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(updated 21 August 2012, 9 February 2026)