Garrha repandula (Zeller, 1855) (one synonym is Cryptolechia scitipunctella Walker, 1869) WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Morwell National Park, Victoria)

The Caterpillars of this species have been found living on the ground feeding on dead leaves of various species of MYRTACEAE. The caterpillars live and eventually pupate in an oval case constructed from two pieces of dead leaf joined with silk.

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

The adult moth has brown forewings each often with many vague dark spots. The hindwings are off-white darkening toward the margins. The antennae are noticeably banded. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species has been found in Australia in :

Victoria.

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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. 298, 301.

Philipp C. Zeller,
Nachtrag zu den im 9. Bande der Linnea Ent. beschriebenen Arten des Genus Cryptolechia,
Linnaea Entomologica,
Volume 10 (1855), p. 150, No. 3-4b, Fig. 3.

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(written 22 January 2017, updated 27 July 2019, 27 January 2021)