(one synonym : Tortricopsis erythrura Meyrick, 1914) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
The Caterpillars of this species have been found feeding on a variey of materials, including
The adult moth has brown forewings each with a greyish patch on the costa. The hindwings are yellow shading to brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found over much of Australia, including:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 223.
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, 33, 238, 240, 241.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera (Oecophoridae),
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 26 (1902) p. 143.
Edward Meyrick,
Oecophoridę,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1, Part 8 (1914), p. 228.
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(written 23 October 2014, 10 January 2015, 19 August 2020)