Myrascia cremantis (Meyrick, 1889)
 (previously known as Peltophora cremantis)
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Myrascia cremantis
(Photo: courtesy of Mark Heath Perth, Western Australia)

This Caterpillar is brown with a black head, a yellowish prothorax, and has several white spots on each segment. The caterpillar lives in a cigar-shaped shelter composed of leaves joined together, that it drags around as it moves around its foodplant.

Myrascia cremantis
(Photo: courtesy of Mark Heath, Perth, Western Australia)

The caterpillar has been found feeding on

  • Paperbark ( Melaleuca species, MYRTACEAE ).

    The caterpillar grows to a length of about 1.5 cms. The cases are built to be only slightly larger, with a length of about 1.6 cms. The caterpillar pupates in its case.

    Myrascia bracteatella
    (Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

    The adult moth has white forewings each with bold network of dark brown lines. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.8 cms.

    Myrascia cremantis
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of Mark Heath Boxwood Hill, Western Australia)

    The species has been found in :

  • Western 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.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XV. Oecophoridae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 3, Part 4 (1889), p. 1638, No. 676.

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    (written 9 November 2026)