DEPRESSARIIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 4 February 2008)
(Picture: courtesy of
CSIRO Entomology)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 4 February 2008)
(Picture: courtesy of
CSIRO Entomology)
The caterpillar of this species is an international pest. It lives in a rolled leaf of its foodplant. It eats the young shoots of various Citrus trees, such as::
The adult moth has white wings with two black dots on the costa of each forewing.
The species is found India and Sri Lanka as well as in Queensland and New South Wales.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 239.
J.J. Davis,
Psorosticha zizyphi (Stnt.) (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland,
Volume 4 (1965), p. 86.
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