on various shrubs and trees including :

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Canberra)

The adult moth is pale with sparse dark markings, especially along the inner margin of the forewings. The hind wings have wide hairy fringes. The wings are curved. The antennae are nearly as long as the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.4 cms.

(Drawing: C. French, Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria,
Victorian Department of Agriculture, Melbourne, 1891, pl. III)

The species has been found in :

Further reading :

Richard Bashford,
The insect complex inhabiting galls formed by Cecidomyia acaciaelongifoliae Skuse (Diptera: CECIDOMYIIDAE) on Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) in Tasmania. The Australian Entomologist, Volume 33, Part 1 (March 2006), pp. 1-4.

Richard Bashford,
The insect fauna inhabiting Uromycladium (Uredinales) rust galls on Silver Wattle (Acacia dealbata) in Tasmania, The Australian Entomologist, Volume 29, Part 3 (September 2002), pp. 81-95.

C. French,
Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, Victorian Department of Agriculture, Melbourne, 1891, pl. III, pp. 56-59.

Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia, Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993, pp. ix,x,10,246-252,263,279.

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