| Philobota hydara Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris, Sandhill Lake, Victoria)
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| Philobota hydara Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris, Sandhill Lake, Victoria)
These Caterpillars are thought to feed on
The adult moths of this species have a dark brown head, a pale yellow thorax, and have pale yellow forewings, each with a dark brown line along the costa, another around the thorax at the base, and a diagonal broken dark brown line from the middle of the wing to the wingtip. The hindwings are dark brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
This species is easily confused with Philobota latifissella, which is superficially similar but has different structures in the genitalia.
Further Reading:
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia II:
The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
CSIRO Publishing, 1997, p. 270.
Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2 (1920), pp. 383-384.
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(written 29 January 2017, updated 5 October 2018, 10 April 2019, 4 October 2020)