| CHEZALA GOUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Bronwyn King,
Melba, Australian Capital Territory)
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| CHEZALA GOUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Bronwyn King,
Melba, Australian Capital Territory)
The Caterpillars of this species are orange with a black head and tail. The caterpillars have vestigial prolegs. The caterpillars are leaf miners, eating the green flesh of a leaf between the upper and lower sufaces. Often there are several caterpillars mining the same leaf. The mine often runs along the midrib, with an opening each end, through one of which frass is ejected. The caterpillars have been found feeding on:
The caterpillars each pupate loosely in their own mine.
The adult moths have yellow forewings that each have some black marks near the base, a broken black band across the middle, several silver spots and lines, and dark brown fringes. The hindwings are dark grey. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
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.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XII. Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 10, Part 4 (1889), pp. 823-824, No. 508.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 8 June 2022)