Acrocercops alysidota (Meyrick, 1880)
Wattle Miner
 (previously known as Gracilaria alysidota)
GRACILLARIINAE,   GRACILLARIIDAE,   GRACILLARIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Maleny, Queensland)

These Caterpillars feed on various Wattles, such as

  • Tasmanian Blackwood ( Acacia melanoxylon, MIMOSACEAE ).

    The early instars burrow into the phyllodes. Later instars can burrow into the stem.


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

    The adult moth has brown forewings, each having a white line along half the hind-margin from the base, and several disconnected dark-edged white chevron markings. The hindwings are a golden brown. Each wing has a fringe along the hind-margin that is wider than the wing it is on. The wingspan is about 0.8 cms.

    The species is found in

  • New Zealand

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Austrlia.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera III Tineina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 5, Part 2 (1880), pp. 161-162.

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    (updated 13 August 2003, 27 December 2022)