Tachystola sidonia

Tachystola sidonia (Meyrick, 1913)
(formerly known as Coesyra sidonia)
CHEZALA GOUP
OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA

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

Tachystola sidonia
(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Jerrabomberra, New South Wales)

This Caterpillar is thought to feed on dead leaves of various

Gum Trees ( Eucalyptus species, MYRTACEAE ).

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

The adult moths of this species have yellow forewings each with a dark brown area at the base and a very broad brown submarginal band along the margin, leaving a very narrow yellow edge to the wing. The hindwings are brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms. The head is yellow, and the thorax dark brown.

The species has been found in :

Queensland, and

New South Wales.

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.

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1913), pp. 119-120.