| (one synonym : Machimia picturata Turner, 1946) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris, Wunghnu, Victoria)
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| (one synonym : Machimia picturata Turner, 1946) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris, Wunghnu, Victoria)
This Caterpillar has been found in a shelter composed of adjacent leaves joined with silk. The caterpillar was feeding on the living leaves of a
The moths have forewings that are dark brown, each with a broad ragged white band along the costa curving around the wingtip to become a submarginal white band. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
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, pp. 284, 286.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Lepidoptera Oecophoridae VIII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1883), p. 472.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera VIII Oecophoridae XIII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 61.
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(written 21 October 2013, 10 January 2015, 25 July 2019, 9 November 2020)