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- This page contains pictures and information about Concealer Moths that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Adult Concealer Moths are very small to medium size. The head is usually
covered with smooth hairy looking scales.
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- The caterpillars are usually small and hairless, have wide variable of
"concealed" habits, from spinning leaves together to constructing
various forms of cases. Some of them feed on decay plant materials.
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- Small Gum Tree Borer Moth
- Cryptophasa balteata, subfamily XYLORYCTINAE,
body length 20mm
- This is a male moth with forewings and hindwings shiny white in colour,
with three black dots on middle of each forewings and a line of black dots
around the margin. Their caterpillars live in Gum tree trunk, feed on wood
and bark.
- Reference:
- 1. Cryptophasa
balteata - Caterpillars
of Australian Moths - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley,
2004.
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- Bird-dropping Concealer Moth
 - Zonopetala clerota, subfamily OECOPHORINAE,
body length 15mm
- The moth in the above photo just came out from pupa and not moved a bit
even our disturbs. Picture was taken in Karawatha Forest during early
summer. This moth looks very similar to the Bird-dropping
Lichen Moth. Please also visit this page
for more details.
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- Purple-banded Concealer Moth
 - Chrysonoma fascialis, subfamily OECOPHORINAE, body length 20mm
- Photos taken in Karawatha Forest on August 2007.
- Reference:
- 1. Moths
of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, Plate 4.19.
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- Concealer Moth ?
 - ? sp., body length 15mm
- Pictures taken in Bulimba Creek near Yimbun Park on Oct 2007.
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- Concealer Moth ?
 - ? sp., body length 15mm
- Quite a number of this moth found in Karawatha Forest on August
2007.
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- Unknown Caterpillar build retreat between leaves
  - ?sp., body length 20mm
- This caterpillar builds retreat with silk between two leaves. We think this
is the caterpillar in this family. Please advise if you know what species it
is.
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- Caterpillar in tube
- Hemibela sp., tube length 10mm
- Caterpillars of genus Hemibela live in tube. They make a hollow
tube from small twig and live inside as protection. They change tube when
they grow up. They pupate inside the tube as well. All of them feed on gum
leaves. More information and pictures can be found in this page.
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- 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.
- 1. Moths
of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990,
p224.
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- Reference:
- 1. Moths
of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990,
p217.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p424.
- 3. OECOPHORIDAE
of Australia - Caterpillars
of Australian Moths - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2007.
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