Scieropepla typhicola Meyrick, 1885
 (erroneously Scieropepla typicola)
XYLORYCTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Scieropepla typhicola
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The Caterpillars of this species are off-white with three brown lines along the back, and some brown spots on each segment The head and sometines the prothorax are brown.

Scieropepla typhicola
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The caterpillars have been found feeding in the seed heads of

  • Lesser Bulrush (Typha augustifolia, TYPHACEAE).

    The adult moths have off-white streaky forewings. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

    Scieropepla typhicola
    (Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

    The species has been found in

  • New Zealand,

    as well as Australia in

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

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

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. Gelechiadae VIII. Tineina (part),
    New Zealand Journal of Science,
    Volume 2 (1885), p. 590 (listed as Scieropepla typicola).

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    (written 26 April 2026)