Banded Concealer Moth I - Eochrois platyphaea

Family Oecophoridae

This page contains information and pictures about Banded Concealer Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 15mm

 

There are a lot of black and white banded moths in the family OECOPHORIDAE as well as the other moth families. They may be looked very similar. 

 

 

 

Photos were taken on Nov 2009, Anstead Forest.

 

 

From reference infromation, caterpillars in genus Eochrois live in tubular silk shelter spun amongst leptospermum (Tea-tree) foliage. 

 

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Reference:

1. Australian Moths Online - CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences 2011.  

2. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p222.

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