| PECTINIVALVINAE, NEPTICULIDAE, NEPTICULOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Stella Crossley |
oops: abdomen is missing
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| PECTINIVALVINAE, NEPTICULIDAE, NEPTICULOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Stella Crossley |
oops: abdomen is missing
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The Caterpillars of this species are leaf miners, eating the flesh beween the upper and lower epidermis of a leaf of their food-plant. They feed on the leaves of Gum Trees such as
The adult moths have forewings that are a uniform dark brown. The males have a purple sheen. The hindwings are brown with broad fringes. The wingspan is about 5 mm.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Malcolm J. Scoble,
A revised cladistic classification of the Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera)
with descriptions of new taxa mainly from South Africa,
Monographs of the Transvaal Museum,
Volume 2 (1983), p. 13, figs 10, 51, 103.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  Moths |  caterpillar |
(written 13 March 2019, updated 2 November 2023)