| (one synonym is Eulechria leptomera Lower, 1900) CHEZALA GOUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
This Caterpillar lives between a pair of leaves of their foodplant joined with silk. The caterpillar has been found feeding on various Gum trees (MYRTACEAE) including
The adult moths have dark brown forewings that each have two faint pale irregular diagonal bands. The hindwings are grey at the bases, shading through yellow, to brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 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, pp. 120-125.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XV Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 3, Part 4 (1889), pp. 1674-1675, No. 745 (474b).
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(written 10 December 2018, updated 5 July 2021)