(previously known as Ocystola malacella)
OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 14 February 2008)
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 14 February 2008)
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne)
The caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on dead leaves of:
The adult moth has yellow forewings that each have a brown margin and a brown V shaped line.
The species has been found in:
Further Reading:
Common, I.F.B.
Oecophorine genera of Australia. II.
The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups
(Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monogr. Aust. Lepid. 5: i-xvi, 1-407 [62], (1997).
Meyrick, E.
Description of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XII.
Oecophoridae,
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., (1)9(4): 1045-1082 [1060], (1885).
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