| WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nick Lambert,
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales)
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| WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nick Lambert,
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales)
This Caterpillar is thought to feed on the foliage of various trees in the family MYRTACEAE, and to live singly in a shelter constructed by joining some leaves of the food plant with silk, retaining frass within the shelter.
The caterpillar is thought to pupate within its webbed shelter.
The adult moth of this species has pale grey forewings each with sparse dark spots, a dark triangle on the costa near the wing-tip, and a narrow dark wiggly line along the margin. The head and thorax are pale grey except for the metathorax which is dark.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I:
The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, 1994.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XIII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 70, Parts 3-4 (1945), p. 104.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 3 February 2026)