| (formerly known as Tinea acrozyga) PALAEPHATIDAE, PALAEPHATOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| (formerly known as Tinea acrozyga) PALAEPHATIDAE, PALAEPHATOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The Caterpillar of this species is yellow with a green stripe along the back and with a black head and black tail segment. Its prolegs are diminshed. The caterpillar mines a leaf of its foodplant, and has been found on
The caterpillar pupates in its leaf-mine.
The forewings of the adult moth are brown, each with a yellow and white stripe along the costa and the hind margin. The hindwings are satin white, each with a brown stripe along the costa. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVI Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Part 4 (1892), pp. 539-540, No. 88.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 27 March 2017)