Wattle Concealer Moth - Epicurica laetiferanus

Family Oecophoridae

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

Body length 15mm

 

Photos were taken on Mar 2010 outside my office in Eight Mile Plains. It was attracted by a fluorescent lamp there.

 

 

From reference information the larvae feed on Acacia (Acacia longifolia) and join those wattle leaves to make shelter.

 

Acacia longifolia

 

 

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Reference:

1. Epicurica laetiferanus - - Caterpillars of Australian Moths - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2011. 

2. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p222, pl4.16.

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