Alucita pygmaea Meyrick, 1890
 ALUCITIDAE,   ALUCITOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Debbie Matthews & Stella Crossley

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

This Caterpillar is reported to feed on the fruit of :

  • Wild Lemon ( Psydrax oleifolia, RUBIACEAE ).

    The adult moth has a wingspan of about 0.8 cms.

    It may be found over south east Asia and the south Pacific, including

  • Fiji,

    and in eastern Australia in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 30.13, p. 328.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of additional Pyralidina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 4, Part 4 (1890), pp. 1112-1113.

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    (updated 14 January 2011, 29 June 2023)