Stathmopoda chalcotypa Meyrick, 1897
 STATHMOPODIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


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

The Caterpillars of this species have been found living inside :

  • galls caused by a rust fungus Uromycladium tepperianum ( PUCCINIALES )

    on various Wattles (MIMOSACEAE), including :

  • Silver Wattle ( Acacia dealbata ), and
  • Bark Wattle ( Acacia decurrens ).

    The forewings of the adult moths are brown with a white-edged diagonal black line along half the wing from base to hind margin, and pair of spots, one black, one off-white, by the wingtip. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

    The species has been found in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania, and
  • South Australia.

    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, p. 226.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera XVII Elachistidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 22 (1897), p. 318, No. 35.

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    (updated 14 May 2008, 24 February 2025)