| (previously known as Cyclogona confusella) BAREA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
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| (previously known as Cyclogona confusella) BAREA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
The Caterpillar of this species feeds on dead sapwood, so it bores into dead trees, living in tunnels under the bark. The caterpillar also bores into structural timber, and fence posts. Fungus in the wood may also contribute to the caterpillar's nutrition.
The adult moth has off-white forewings each with a variable blotchy fragmented black or dark brown pattern. The hindwings are a silky fawn colour. The thorax is off-white with variable black or dark brown blotches. The moth has a wingspan of about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
and in Australia in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 22.10, p. 225.
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. 22, 33, 34.
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia III:
The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 8,
CSIRO Publishing, 2000, pp. 146,151-153, 155, 157, 166-168.
K.M. Moore,
Observations on some Australian forest insects. 3.
The biology and larval taxonomy of some Lepidoptera
attacking trees and timber
Australian Zoologist,
Volume 12, Number 4 (1959), pp. 337-350, pls. 41-43
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects
in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 29 (1864), p. 682-683.
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(updated 1 November 2012, 12 November 2017, 7 July 2020, 19 January 2022)