| (formerly known as Gelechia isoscelixantha) ANACAMPSINAE, GELECHIIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Heather Jordan, Braddon, Australian Capital Territory)
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| (formerly known as Gelechia isoscelixantha) ANACAMPSINAE, GELECHIIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Heather Jordan, Braddon, Australian Capital Territory)
The Caterpillars of this species are pale greenish-brown, with a dark brown head and brown collar. They live singly in a shelter formed from a rolled up leaf. They have been found feeding on the leaves of
The caterpillar grows to a length of about 1 cm. It pupates in its rolled leaf shelter. The pupa is dark brown with a length of about 0.6 cm.
The adult moths have black speckled forewings each with a pale mark on the costa near the wingtip.
The hindwings are fawn. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species has been found in Australia in
The adult moths are sometimes hard to distinguish from those of Aproaerema simplexella.
Further reading :
Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), p. 272.
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(written 21 March 2008, updated 10 November 2024)