Purple-banded Concealer Moth - Chrysonoma fascialis

Family Oecophoridae

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

Body length 20mm

 

 

 

Photos taken in Karawatha Forest on August 2007.

 

   

 

Found it again on Jan 2008 in Karawatha Forest 

 

The larvae live in portable cases formed from teo irregular pieces cut from leaves of Eucalyptus or Lophostemon on which they feed. 

 

 

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Reference:

1. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p 223, Plate 4.19.

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