| (previously known as Eriodyta sigmophora) EULECHRIA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nick Monaghan, Mornington Peninsula National Park, Victoria)
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| (previously known as Eriodyta sigmophora) EULECHRIA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nick Monaghan, Mornington Peninsula National Park, Victoria)
The Caterpillar of this species is expected to feed on dead leaves, as do others in this genus Eulechria, although different species in this genus seem each to prefer different host plants. The caterpillar probably lives in a tubular silk lined gallery, incorporating debris and frass, in amongst the dead leaves.
The caterpillar probably pupates in a larger and looser chamber at one end of the gallery.
The forewings of the adult moth of this species are white or sometimes yellow, with a bold brown sigmoid line and often also a chequered margin on each forewing. The hindwings are off-white, sometimes shading to brown at the margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
This moth appears looks like a white version of Eulechria ophiodes.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, Figs. 22.1, 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. 355, 368.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera X Oecophoridae (Continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 8, Part 4 (1884), p. 516.
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(written 27 June 2013, updated 22 October 2018)