| (previously known as Zonopetala erythrosema) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)
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| (previously known as Zonopetala erythrosema) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)
This Caterpillar is off-white. It feeds on damp dead leaves of
The caterpillar joins the leaves together with silk to make a shelter in which it lives. If threatened, the caterillar curls into a 'C' shape. The caterpillar pupates in its shelter.
The adult moth has brown forewings, each with two white-edged black marks. The hindwings are brown fading to white at the bases. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 4.12, 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. 142, 253, 255, 256.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, XII Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 10, Part 4 (1886), pp. 829-830.
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(updated 1 November 2012, 5 September 2018, 12 October 2020)