The caterpillars bore tunnels into the fungus, and live and pupate in their tunnels.

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

The adult moth has a speckled brown pattern on the forewings, and plain brown hindwings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species is found in north-eastern Australia, in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 3.5, p. 183.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVI: Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Part 4 (1891), pp. 523-525, No. 64.

Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993.

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