Euchaetis rufogrisea (Meyrick, 1883) (formerly known as Heliocausta rufogrisea) WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Jerrabomberra, 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 pupates within its webbed shelter.

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

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a black-edgeded pale area at the base and at the margin, each crossed by a variable dark zigzag line. The hindwings are white shading to brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species may be found in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 270.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, VIII Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1883), pp. 467, 483, No. 48.

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(written 29 April 2024)