Eochrois epidesma (Meyrick, 1886)
 (previously known as Heliocausta epidesma)
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Eochrois epidesma
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Riddell's Creek, Victoria)

The Caterpillars of this species have been found feeding on Mistletoes including:

  • Box Mistletoe ( Amyema miquelli, LORANTHACEAE ).

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

    The adult moth has yellow forewings, each a dark brown base, a short dark brown line along the basal end of the costa, a dark brown bar along the margin, and a postmedial dark brown bar, which is often joined to the marginal bar. The hindwings are brown, darkening towards the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

    The species has been found in:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Oecophorine Genera of Australia I: The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, pp. 24, 29, 95, 96.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XII: Oecophoridae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 1, Volume 10, Number 4 (1886), p. 832, No. 519 (41a).

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    (writen 22 January 2017, updated 26 July 2019, 10 November 2020)