| (one synonym : Colpoloma fraxinea Turner, 1946) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne, Victoria)
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| (one synonym : Colpoloma fraxinea Turner, 1946) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne, Victoria)
These Caterpillars have been found feeding on the leaves and flowers of a variety of bush and tree species, including:
The adult moth of this species has rusty brown forewings each with a white dot in the middle, and a thin gray diagonal stripe across the margin. The hindwings are pale brown shading darker at the margins. The wingspan is about 3 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, Melbourne 1994, pp. 33, 34, 195-200.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, XII Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1883), pp. 427, 433-434.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera Oecophoridae XIII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 70, Parts 3-4 (1946) p. 104.
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(updated 1 November 2012, 10 January 2015, 25 July 2019)