| (erroneously Oenochroa laetella Turner, 1896) OTHER OECOPHORINAE OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
David Akers,
Won Wron, Victoria)
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| (erroneously Oenochroa laetella Turner, 1896) OTHER OECOPHORINAE OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
David Akers,
Won Wron, Victoria)
The Caterpillar of this species is buff coloured with a broad dark brown dorso-lateral line each side, a thin dark dorsal line, white between segments, and a pale brown head. It grows to a length of about 1.5 cms.
The caterpillar feeds on:
The caterpillar lives in a shelter composed of leaves joined with silk, and pupates in its leafy shelter.
The adult moth had grey patterned forewings, and yellow hindwings each with a black border. The moth has a wing span of about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading:
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia III:
The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 8,
CSIRO Publishing, 2000, p. 419-422, 424.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Australian Lepidoptera of the group Geometrites,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 20 (1896), p. 13.
Francis Walker,
Tineites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 29 (1864), p. 648, No. 360.
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(updated 21 December 2009, 23 May 2023)