Lichenaula phloeochroa Turner, 1898
 XYLORYCTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Lichenaula phloeochroa
(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas Fisher, Tamborine, Queensland)

The Caterpillars of this species have been found boring into the stems of

  • Weeping Paperbark ( Melaleuca leucadendra, MYRTACEAE ).

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

    The adult moths have speckled brown forewings, each with dark markings at the base, a vague oblique dark line across the middle, and a dark area around the wingtip and margin. The hindwings are pale brown, shading darker at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

    The species has been found in :

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Ian McMillan,
    Lichenaula phloeochroa,
    Xyloryctine Moths of Australia,
    Blog, Wednesday, July 14, 2010.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    The Xyloryctidae of Queensland,
    Annals of the Queensland Museum,
    Volume 4 (1898), p. 18, No.48

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    (written 16 January 2019, updated 10 September 2020)