(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Riddells Creek, Victoria)

The adult moth has yellow forewings, each with a dark brown area at the base and a broad dark brown band along the margin. The hindwings are yellow. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species has been found in :

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia II: The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, 1997, fig. 171, pp. 103, 106-109.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XI: Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 9, Part 3 (1881), pp. 771-772, No. 313.

Cathy Powers,
Lights, Cameras & Action,
Victorian Entomologist,
Volume 50 (2019), p. 4.

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(updated 1 November 2012, 9 October 2013, 10 January 2015, 4 February 2020, 31 July 2021)