The caterpillar lives in a shelter constructed by joining dead leaves and frass with silk.

The caterpillars pupate in a cocoon, with no frass, which is so flimsy that the pupa can be seen inside.

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

The adult moths of this species have yellow forewings each with a broad brown or yellow band along the margin with dark brown and red edges. The hindwings are pale brown darkening towards the wingtips. The head and thorax are yellow separated by a dark brown collar.

The species has been found in :

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, 1997, pp. 78, 80-85.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XII Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 9, Number 4 (1885), p. 1059, No. 365.

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2 (1921), p. 385.

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(written 1 February 2017, updated 25 October 2018, 27 April 2020, 5 July 2021)