| PECTINIVALVINAE, NEPTICULIDAE, NEPTICULOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Erik J. van Nieukerken and the
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| PECTINIVALVINAE, NEPTICULIDAE, NEPTICULOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Erik J. van Nieukerken and the
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The Caterpillars of this species are leaf-miners, feeding on the flesh between the upper and lower epidermis of leaves of
The pupa is brown, and formed in the leaf-mine.
The adult moths have dark brown forewings, each liberally scattered with metallic blue scales, particularly near the base. The hindwings are dark brown. The wingspan is about 5 mm.
The species has been found in Lamington National Park on the borders of
Further reading :
Erik J. van Nieukerken, Cornelis van den Berg, & Robert J. B. Hoare,
A new species of the endemic Australian genus Roscidotoga Hoare
from rainforests in southern Queensland (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae),
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,
Volume 154 (2011), pp. 193-201.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  Moths |  caterpillar |
(written 11 January 2020, updated 5 March 2021)