Euthrausta oxyprora

Euthrausta oxyprora (Turner, 1908)
(previously known as Tineodes oxyprora)
TINEODIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Debbie Matthews Lott & Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda)

The Caterpillar of this species is reported to live between joined leaves and feed on the foliage of :

Cheese Tree ( Glochidion ferdinandi , EUPHORBIACEAE ).

(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

The adult moth has unsplit wings. Each wing is translucent except for a brown area near the base. The tips of the forewings are hooked and the torni angled. The antennae and legs are each longer than the length of a forewing, The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

The species has been found in

Queensland and

New South Wales.

There is some confusion over this species and Euthrausta holophaea as Turner apparently described the female of this species as that one.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, figs. 30.7, 30.8, p. 325.