Coeranica eritima Meyrick, 1884 WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Con Boekel, O'Connor, Australian Capital Territory)

The Caterpillars of this species probably feed on dead leaves still on their twigs of various species of Gum Trees (MYRTACEAE).

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

The adult moths have pale yellow forewings, each with a black line along most of the costa, a scimitar-shaped purplish black submarginal arc, and a purplish black band along the margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The head, labial palps, and pro-thorax are pale yellow. The meso-thorax is black. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in :

South Australia.

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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. 132.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XI. Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 9, Number 3 (1884), pp. 760-761, No. 302.

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(written 31 July 2025)