lining its boreholes with silk which projects from the tunnel and has a silk cap.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The adult moth is has dark brown forewings with overlapping pale yellow spots, and plain brown hindwings. It has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

The species is found all over eastern Australia, including:

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 3.6, p. 184.

Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia, Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993, pp. ix,x,10,246-252,263,279.

Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths, CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 51.

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(updated 25 October 2010)