| Jarrah Leaf Miner INCURVARIIDAE, ADELOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| Jarrah Leaf Miner INCURVARIIDAE, ADELOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The Caterpillars of this species live in a leaf their foodplant, eating the flesh between the upper and lower skins. They feed on:
The adult moths have patchy brown forewings. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the wing-tips. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
The eggs are laid single between the upper and lower skin of a leaf of a foodplant.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
A new genus Perthida for the Western Australian jarrah leaf miner P. glyphopa sp.n. and Tinea phoenicopa Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Incurvariidae),
Journal of the Australian Entomological Society,
Volume 8 (1969) p.128.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 31 March 2013, 13 February 2024)