eating the flesh between the upper and lower skins of the leaves. They are also found on:

When it is mature, the caterpillar leaves its leafmine to form a cocoon nearby.

The adult moths have dark forewings with three white bars across each one. The hindwings are very narrow and have an extensive plume of hairs along the hind margin. The wingspan is about 7 mms.

The species is found in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 20.11, p. 199.

A. Jefferis Turner,
A revision of the Australian Gracilariidae (Lepidoptera),
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 64 (1940), p. 59, No. 61.

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(updated 3 November 2004, 27 February 2017)