The caterpillars live in a case made from dead leaves joined with silk, later instars carrying their cases around with them, and in due course, pupating in their final case.

(Photo: courtesy of Nick Lambert, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales)

The adult moths have pale brown forewings that have some variable darker spots, a variable dark area along the hind margin, and a variable dark triangle across the margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

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, pp. 148, 150.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Descriptions of new Microlepidoptera from Queensland,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 22 (1898), pp. 210-211.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 41 (1917), pp. 81-82.

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(written 15 December 2018, updated 29 November 2019, 8 July 2021)