Eriogenes meyricki Duckworth 1973

Eriogenes meyricki

Alar expanse 27–35mm.

Antenna with scape and dorsum of shaft light brown mixed with white. Head light brown medially, whitish tufts posterior to antennae, face light brown; labial palpus dark brown basally to middle of second segment, lighter brown mixed with white to apex, apical segment less than one-third length of second segment. Thorax and tegulae brown, heavily suffused with white. Legs as in E. mesogypsa. Abdomen pale brown to white ventrally, brown dorsally. Forewing brown, a median, irregularly shaped, white fascia from costa to dorsum, discal spot dark brown within the outer margin of white fascia, apical third with two relatively distinct transverse brown lines, one bordering the outer margin of white fascia, the other extending from apical three-fourths of costa to dorsum before tornus, cilia white with interrupted brown line basally. Hind wing brown, cilia brown.

MALE GENITALIA (WDD 4200, holotype).—Uncus truncate apically; gnathal plate gradually narrowing to broadly recurved apex; harpe acute apically; anellar plate with ventral margin indented at midpoint, two short, truncate lateral lobes; aedeagus short, broad, less than one-half the length of harpe, apex produced into a narrow, apically acute projection; vesica with two large, heavily sclerotized cornuti.

FEMALE GENITALIA.—Unknown.

TYPE.—Holotype male, British Museum (Natural History).

TYPE-LOCALITY.—Central Ceram, 4600 ft.

HOST PLANT.—Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION.—Presently known from the Moluccas, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago.

ADULT RECORDS.—MOLUCCAS: Ceram, 4600 ft (Jan.). NEW GUINEA: Telefomin (Eliptamin), 4500–5500 ft (June, Sept.). BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO: Rook Island (July); New Britain, Keravat (no date). St. MATTHIAS GROUP: St. Matthias Island (July).

Eriogenes cossoides is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1882. It is found on the Moluccas, New Britain and Duke of York Island and in Queensland on mainland Australia.

The wingspan is 29–31 mm. The forewings are silvery white, with the basal two-fifths more or less clouded with red brown, the outer margin of the red-brown area inarched. There is an indistinct curved stripe of the same colour crossing the wing immediately beyond the cell and the costal margin and external border are also red brown. The hindwings are smoky grey, with a white-tipped fringe.