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

The adult moth has yellow forewings, each with a dark brown area at the base, variable broad dark brown areas at the margins, and a dark brown line along part of the costa. The hindwings are pale brown. The head is dark brown with a dark brown collar. The thorax is yellow. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

The species has been found in :

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia II: The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, 1997, pp. 106-109.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XI: Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 9, Part 3 (1881), p. 779, No. 326.

Alfred Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. IX,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 65 (1940), p. 445, No. 1300.

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(written 31 July 2021)