Microcolona nodata

Microcolona nodata is a moth in the Elachistidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1897.^[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania.^[2]

The wingspan is 7-8 mm. The forewings are ochreous, mixed with white and sprinkled with dark fuscous, almost wholly suffused with white on the anterior half and sometimes throughout. There is a raised black dot on the fold at one-sixth and a larger one beneath the fold at one-third, a third in the disc before the middle, as well as a fourth beneath the fold obliquely beyond the third. There are two transversely placed close together or confluent above the tornus. There is sometimes a blackish costal dot beyond the middle and always a black apical dot and another obliquely above and before it. The hindwings are whitish-grey.^[3]

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