The caterpillar folds over the tip of a leaf to make a shelter in which it lives and develops, continuing development even after the leaf is shed and falls to the ground.

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

The forewings of the adult moth of this species are dark brown with two broad yellow bands across each forewing. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species has been 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, 1994, pp. 32, 310, 312, 313.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera XII Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 9, Issue 4 (1885), p. 1072.

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(written 27 June 2013, updated 10 January 2015, 25 July 2019, 10 November 2020)