The young caterpillar erects a tall narrow silk shelter covered in frass on top of a leaf. Later it cuts the leaf, and rolls part of it over to make a tubular shelter.

The caterpillar pupates in its shelter.

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

The adult moth has white forewings, each with a broad transverse dark brown band with raised scales. The hindwings are pale brown, fading to white at the bases.

The species is found in inland Australia, including:

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 21.19, p. 223.

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. 144, 147, 148.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidotera XV Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume III (1888), p. 1599-1600.

Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 65.

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(updated 16 September 2013, 11 November 2020)