| Jarrah Leaf Miner INCURVARIIDAE, ADELOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
leaf mines in a Jarra leaf
(Photo: courtesy of
Markos,
Perth, Western Australia)
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| Jarrah Leaf Miner INCURVARIIDAE, ADELOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
leaf mines in a Jarra leaf
(Photo: courtesy of
Markos,
Perth, Western Australia)
The Caterpillars of this species cut a hole in a leaf their foodplant, and eat the flesh between the upper and lower skins of the leaf.
They feed on:
The larvae pupate in a case made of their leaf-mine skin.
The adult moths have patchy brown forewings. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the wing-tips. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
The eggs are laid singly between the upper and lower skin of a leaf of a foodplant.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
A new genus Perthida for the Western Australian jarrah leaf miner P. glyphopa sp.n. and Tinea phoenicopa Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Incurvariidae),
Journal of the Australian Entomological Society,
Volume 8 (1969) p.128.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 31 March 2013, 29 September 2025)