Banded Concealer Moth III - Eulechria platyrrhabda
Family Oecophoridae
This page contains information and pictures about Banded Concealer Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 15mm
- Eulechria is one of the largest genus in the Concealer Moths family. Most of them are black and white banded. 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.
- Pictures taken in Bulimba Creek near Yimbun Park on Oct 2007. From reference information the larvae feed on Eucalyptus leaves.
- Mar 2010, Daisy Hills
Caterpillar in Snail-shaped case made of dry leaves
- Aristeis sp. or Eulechria sp., case dia 10-15mm
- Caterpillars in this two genus feed on green gum leaves. They construct a helical case with dry leaves, which resembles snail shell and live inside as protection. From reference information the larvae feed on green leaves of Eucalyptus.
- Reference:
- 1. Eulechria platyrrhabdia - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks, 2004
- 2. Australian Moths Online - CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences 2011.
- 3. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p224, fig52.3.
- 4. Aristeis hepialella (Walker, 1864) - Caterpillars of Australian Moths - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2011.
