on various Wattles ( MIMOSACEAE ), including :

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

The adult moths have brown forewings each with a white diagonal stripe near the base. The hindwings are plain off-white. Each wing has an extensive hairy fringe to the hind margin. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

The species has been found in

Further reading :

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.

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 22.14, p. 226.

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 54.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera XVII Elachistidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), p. 319.

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(updated 14 May 2008, 5 March 2017, 9 April 2022)