![]() | (one synonym: Copriodes hypsilopha, Turner, 1935) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Jenny Holmes, Great Western, Victoria )
These Caterpillars are thought to feed on the green foliage of various trees in the family MYRTACEAE, including:
The young caterpillar erects a tall narrow silk shelter covered in frass on top of a leaf. Later it cuts the leaf, and rolls part of it over to make a tubular shelter.
The caterpillar pupates in its shelter.
The adult moth has white forewings, each with a broad transverse dark brown band with raised scales. The hindwings are pale brown, fading to white at the bases.
The species is found in inland Australia, including:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 21.19, p. 223.
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I:
The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, pp. 144, 147, 148.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidotera XV Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume III (1888), p. 1599-1600.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 65.
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(updated 16 September 2013, 11 November 2020)