They live communally in shelters of partly eaten and dead leaves joined by silk, and partly covered in frass. The caterpillars grow to a length of about 2 cms.

The Caterpillars pupate in their shelter.

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

The forewings of the adult moth are pale brown with some variable darker brown markings, and a brown band along the margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The head is off-white, and the thorax is dark brown. The moths have a wingspan of up to 2.5 cm.

The species is found in :

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I: The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, p. 78.

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 48.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, VIII Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1883), pp. 468, 474-475, No. 40.

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(written 14 October 2019, updated 10 January 2022)