living between leaves joined with silk. It is a translucent mottled reddish-green, with white between the segments, a thin dark dorsal line, and a brown head. The prothorax is also brown but has a pale dorsal patch. The Caterpillar grows to a length of about 1 cm.

(Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Sydney, New South Wales)

It produces a boring little brown moth with dark edges to the wings, some dark spots near the middle of each forewing. The antennae are noticeably banded. It has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

Moths with similar forewing patterns are illustrated on the BOLD website:

listed as Garrha sp. ANIC46
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

which have been found in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,   Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 222.

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. 294-302.

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(updated 17 May 2011, 30 April 2019, 27 January 2021)