leaving a pile of refuse around the mouth of their borehole. The caterpillars pupate in the refuse pile.

(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth has brown forewings each with a dark-edged white streak, and white chevrons pointing at an eye-spot on the margin. The hindwings are brown with dark veins. The head is white. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in :

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 19.20, etc.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. IV. Tineina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 5, Part 2 (1880), pp. 266-267.

Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993, fig. 660, etc.

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(written 10 February 2019, updated 22 November 2020, 10 February 2022)