(Photo: courtesy of the South Australian Research and Development Institute)

This Caterpillar is long and thin. It makes a vertical tunnel in the ground where it hides by day. It emerges at night to feed. It is a pest on pastures because this is inclined to kill the plants there.

The adult moths are shiny white with a dark streak along each forewing costa. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common, Oecophorine Genera of Australia II:
The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae)
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1997

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