OECOPHORIDAE of Australia
Concealer Moths
 GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 21 September 2008)

These Caterpillars are generally small and hairless. Many feed on ground litter or dead leaves. Some bear cases, some live in the soil, and some live in shelters made joining leaves together with silk.

The family XYLORYCTIDAE was considered to be a subfamily of OECOPHORIDAE by Nielsen et al., but here following the later book A Guide to Australian Moths by Zborowski & Edwards we have listed it as a separate family.

Some common members of the 5,275 or so named Australian species of OECOPHORIDAE are:

  • Acanthodela erythrosema

    Aeolothapsa malacella

  • Ageletha crocoxantha
  • Ageletha elaeodes
    Ageletha hemiteles : Webbing Moth

    Agriophara cinerosa
    Agriophara confertella

  • Ancistromorpha phryganophanes

  • Ancistroneura thaumasia

  • Anthocoma euterpnes

  • Antipterna diclethra

    Arachnographa micrastrella

  • Barea basigramma
    Barea confusella
  • Barea exarcha
  • Barea xanthoptera

  • Bathrosterra calotropha

  • Brachynemata aphanes
  • Brachynemata cingulata
  • Brachynemata diantha
  • Brachynemata leucanepsia
  • Brachynemata mimopa
  • Brachynemata ochrolitha
  • Brachynemata ombrodes
  • Brachynemata restricta

  • Callimima daedalma
  • Callimima lophoptera

  • Catacometes hemiscia
  • Catacometes phanozona

    Chezala carphalea

  • Cnecophora melichrodes

  • Coeranica eritima
  • Coeranica isabella
  • Coeranica rhythmosema

  • Compsotropha selenias
    Compsotropha strophiella

  • Cosmaresta anarrecta
  • Cosmaresta anomophanes
  • Cosmaresta callichrysa
  • Cosmaresta canephora
  • Cosmaresta charaxias
  • Cosmaresta eugramma
  • Cosmaresta eurytoxa
  • Cosmaresta hyphanta
  • Cosmaresta leucozancla
  • Cosmaresta niphias
  • Cosmaresta ochrophara
  • Cosmaresta phaeochorda

  • Crepidosceles argyropis
  • Crepidosceles chryscrythra
  • Crepidosceles coeloxantha
  • Crepidosceles exanthema
  • Crepidosceles glycydora
  • Crepidosceles iostephana
  • Crepidosceles orthomochla
  • Crepidosceles rhodopechys
  • Crepidosceles timalphes

  • Deigmoesta lithocosma

  • Elaphromorpha asthenes
  • Elaphromorpha axierasta
  • Elaphromorpha euneta
  • Elaphromorpha glycymilicha

    Endrosis sarcitrella : White Shouldered House Moth

    Enoplidia simplex

  • Eochrois acutella
  • Eochrois anaemica
  • Eochrois anthophora
  • Eochrois argyraspis
  • Eochrois atypa
    Eochrois callianassa
  • Eochrois caminias
  • Eochrois chrysias
  • Eochrois cuphosema
  • Eochrois cycnodes
  • Eochrois dejunctella
  • Eochrois epidesma
  • Eochrois epitoxa
  • Eochrois hebes
  • Eochrois holochroa
  • Eochrois leiochroa
  • Eochrois pandora
  • Eochrois phoenopis
  • Eochrois platyphaea
  • Eochrois pulverulenta
  • Eochrois rubrilinea
  • Eochrois sarcoxantha

  • Epicurica laetiferanus
  • Epicurica mutabilis

  • Euchaetis habrocosma
  • Euchaetis iozona
    Euchaetis metallota
  • Euchaetis parthenopa
    Euchaetis rhizobola
  • Euchaetis rufogrisea

    Garrha demotica
    Garrha ocellifera

  • Garrha pudica
    Garrha species

  • Habroscopa idiocosma
  • Habroscopa iriodes
  • Habroscopa miltotypa

  • Hapaloteucha idiosticha
  • Hapaloteucha paragramma

  • Heliocausta oecophorella

    Hemibela trigonoptera
    Hemibela species

  • Heteroteucha anthodora
  • Heteroteucha asema
  • Heteroteucha aspasia
    Heteroteucha dichroella
  • Heteroteucha dimochla
  • Heteroteucha distephana
  • Heteroteucha kershawi
  • Heteroteucha occidua
  • Heteroteucha ophthalmica
  • Heteroteucha paraclista
  • Heteroteucha parvula
  • Heteroteucha porphyryplaca
  • Heteroteucha rhoecosema
  • Heteroteucha rhoecozona
  • Heteroteucha stereomita
  • Heteroteucha subflava
  • Heteroteucha thalamepola
  • Heteroteucha translatella

    Hieromantis ephodophora : Brown House Moth

    Hofmannophila pseudospretella : Hoop Pine Seed Moth

    Leptocroca sanguinolenta

    Lophopepla igniferella

  • Mermeristis spodiaea

    Microbela epicona

    Oecophora aemulella

    Oenochroa species A
    Oenochroa species B

    Philarista porphyrinella

    Philobota arabella
    Philobota impletella
    Philobota productella
    Philobota xiphostola

    Piloprepes anassa

    Pilostibes basivitta

    Polyeucta callimorpha

  • Procometis bisulcata
  • Procometis lipara
  • Procometis phloeodes

  • Scieropepla typhicola

  • Snellenia lineata
  • Snellenia miltocrossa

  • Stathmopoda cephalaea
  • Stathmopoda chalcotypa
    Stathmopoda crocophanes
    Stathmopoda megathyma
    Stathmopoda melanochroa

    Syringoseca mimica

    Tachystola aethopis

  • Tanyzancla argutella
    Tanyzancha marionella

    Telanepsia stockeri

  • Trisynopta scatophaga

    Tymbophora peltastis

    Wingia aurata
    Wingia lambertella : Pink Leaf Moth

    Zonopetala clerota

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