(previously known as Acrocercops eumetalla) GRACILLARIINAE, GRACILLARIIDAE, GRACILLARIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
These Caterpillars have been found feeding and living :
The adult moths are a metallic gold colour with white markings, and have a wingspan of about 1 cm.
The species has been found in Australia in
and also in
Further reading :
Richard Bashford,
The insect complex inhabiting galls formed by
Cecidomyia acaciaelongifoliae Skuse (Diptera:
CECIDOMYIIDAE) on Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) in Tasmania,
The Australian Entomologist,
Volume 33, Part 1 (March 2006), pp. 1-4.
Richard Bashford,
The insect fauna inhabiting Uromycladium
(Uredinales) rust galls on Silver Wattle
(Acacia dealbata) in Tasmania,
The Australian Entomologist,
Volume 29, Part 3 (September 2002), pp. 81-95.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera: III: Tineina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 5, Part 2 (1880), p. 160.
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(updated 13 September 2006, 22 April 2018)