Home

Graeme's Insects of Townsville, Australia

contact

Dictionary

Cosmopterigidae

  Small or very small moths with narrow wings. Some are leaf miners in grasses.      [350 Aust. species]

All species pictured have their DNA in the Barcode of Life Database.


 
Cosmopterix sp. GC1

Cosmopterix sp. GC2

Cosmopterix sp. GC3

Cosmopterix sp. GC4  
         

 

Cosmopterix sp. GC5

Cosmopterix sp. GC6

Cosmopterix sp. GC7

Cosmopterix sp. GC8

 
         

 

Cosmopterix sp. GC9

Cosmopterix sp. GC10

Cosmopterix sp. 11

Cosmopterix sp. GC12

 
         
 
Cosmopterix sp. GC13 Cosmopterix sp. GC15 CosmopterigidGC sp. 1 CosmopterigidGC sp. 2  
         

 
CosmopterigidGC sp. 3 CosmopterigidGC sp. 7 CosmopterigidGC sp. 9

CosmopterigidGC sp. 10

 
         

 
CosmopterigidGC sp. 11 CosmopterigidGC sp. 12 CosmopterigidGC sp. 13

CosmopterigidGC sp. 14

 
         

 

CosmopterigidGC sp. 15

CosmopterigidGC sp. 16

CosmopterigidGC sp. 17

CosmopterigidGC sp. 18

 
         

 

 

CosmopterigidGC sp. 19

CosmopterigidGC sp. 22

Eumenodora encrypta

Labdia deliciosella

 
         

 
Labdia sp. GC1

Labdia sp. GC2

Labdia sp. GC3

Labdia sp. GC4

 
         

 

Labdia sp. GC5

Labdia sp. GC6

Labdia sp. GC7

Labdia sp. GC8

 
         

 

Labdia sp. GC9

Labdia sp. GC10

Labdia sp. GC11

Labdia sp. GC13  
         

 
Labdia sp. GC14 Labdia sp. GC15 Labdia sp. GC18

Labdia sp. GC19

 
         

 
Labdia sp. GC20 Labdia sp. GC21 Labdia sp. 23

Leptozestis sp. ANIC50

 
         

 
Leptozestis sp. GC1 Leptozestis sp. GC2

Leptozestis sp. GC5

Limnaecia tetraplanetis

 
         

 

Limnaecia sp. 1

Limnaecia sp. 2

Limnaecia sp. GC3

Limnaecia sp. GC4  
         

 
Limnaecia sp. GC5 Limnaecia sp. GC6 Limnaecia sp. GC7 Limnaecia sp. GC8  
         

 

Limnaecia sp. 12

Limnaecia sp. GC13

Limnaecia sp. GC14

Limnaecia sp. GC17

 
         

 

Limnaecia sp. GC19

Limnaecia sp. GC20

Limnaecia sp. GC21

Limnaecia sp. GC22

 
         

 

Limnaecia sp. 23

Macrobathra sp. ANIC6

Macrobathra sp. GC1

Macrobathra sp. GC2

 
         

 

Macrbathra bigerella

Macrobathra leucopeda

Macrobathra leucozancla

Macrobathra sarcoleuca

 
         
 
Paratheta sp. GC1 Pyroderces badia Pyroderces sp. GC1 Pyroderces sp. GC2  
         

 
Pyroderces sp. GC5 Pyroderces sp. GC4 Trachydora chrysodoxa

Xestocasis balanochrysa

 
         
       
Cosmopterig sp. 13        
         
         

References:

Insects of Australia (Chapter 41: Lepidoptera)

E.S. Nielson and I.F.B. Common

CSIRO, Division of Entomology

1137pp (2 volumes), Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1999.

Page 868

 

Moths of Australia

Ian F.B. Common

Melbourne University Press, 1990

Page