Thema protogramma (Meyrick, 1884) (previously known as Pleurota protogramma) CHEZALA GOUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

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

Caterpillars of other species in this genus feed on the dead leaves of various tree species in ground leaf litter, and the caterpillars of this species are expected to do the same.

(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The adult moth has pale brown forewings each with several dark streaks. The hindwings are dark brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 22.4, p. 224.

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. 173, 176, 177, 195.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. XI. Oecophoriidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 9, Part 3 (1884), pp. 751.

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