(formerly known as Heliocausta rufogrisea) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dianne Clarke,
Jerrabomberra, New South Wales)
This Caterpillar is thought to feed on the foliage of various trees in the family MYRTACEAE, and to live singly in a shelter constructed by joining some leaves of the food plant with silk, retaining frass within the shelter.
The caterpillar pupates within its webbed shelter.
The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a black-edgeded pale area at the base and at the margin, each crossed by a variable dark zigzag line. The hindwings are white shading to brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species may be found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 270.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, VIII Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1883), pp. 467, 483, No. 48.
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(written 29 April 2024)