Enchronista proximella (Walker, 1863)
 (previously known as Incurvaria proximella)
CHEZALA GOUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Enchronista proximella
(Photo: courtesy of Steve Solomons, Bateau Bay, New South Wales)

These adult moths are dark brown with one broad and one ragged narrow yellow band across each forewing. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

Enchronista proximella
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The species has been found in:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

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

    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. 21-22.

    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. 16, 47-50, 59.

    Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 27 (1863), p. 490.

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    (updated 2 August 2010, 7 February 2014, 10 January 2015, 21 October 2018, 8 July 2021)