Delexocha ochrocausta (Meyrick, 1884)
 (previously known as Leistomorpha ochrocausta)
CHEZALA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Delexocha ochrocausta
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

This adult moth has yellow or brown forewings, each with a dark marginal area. The hindwings and undersides are brown. The thorax may be brown or yellow. The moth has long upturned labial palps. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in eastern Australia, including:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory, and
  • Victoria.

    Delexocha ochrocausta
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

    Easily confused with Merocroca automima.

    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, pp. 193, 201-204.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae X (continued),
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 8, Part 4 (1884), p. 511, No. 238.

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    (updated 1 November 2012, 1 November 2024)