on various shrubs and trees including :

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth has off-white forewings, each with sparse dark markings, especially along the hind margins, but also with an eyespot at the wing-tip. The hindwings have wide hairy fringes. The antennae are nearly as long as the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.4 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

drawing by C. French, Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria,
Victorian Department of Agriculture, Melbourne, 1891, Plate III,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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, pp. 57-59, and also Plate 3.

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.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 30 (1864), pp. 1006-1007.

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(updated 3 February 2009, 14 August 2019)