Heteroteucha distephana (Meyrick, 1884)
 (previously known as Coesyra distephana)
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Heteroteucha distephana
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

These Caterpillars feed on the ground on dead leaves of various species of

  • Gum Trees ( Eucalyptus species, MYRTACEAE ).

    The adult moths have yellow forewings each with a brown band across the middle and a broad brown margin. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

    The species has been found in :

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Oecophorine Genera of Australia I: The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, pp. 119, 121.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. XI. Oecophoridae (Continued),
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 9, Number 3 (1884), pp. 768-769.

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    (updated 26 May 2010, 10 January 2015, 27 July 2019, 10 November 2020)