Euchaetis rhizobola

Euchaetis rhizobola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Euchaetis
Species:	E. rhizobola
Binomial name
Euchaetis rhizobola Meyrick, 1888

Euchaetis rhizobola is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is found in Australia, including New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

The wingspan is 31-33 mm. The forewings are ferruginous, irrorated with very pale greyish-ochreous and with very pale greyish-ochreous ; markings and a rosy costal edge. There is a short streak along the base of the inner margin, forming a spot at the base and a moderate rather irregular-edged costal streak, rather broad at the base, emitting two irregular oblique wedge-shaped projections, at one-fourth and the middle, first running to the fold before middle, the second to a whitish dot in the disc at three-fifths. There are three ill-defined grey-whitish dots beneath the posterior half of the costal streak, almost confluent with it and there is a grey whitish submarginal line, becoming marginal on the lower half of the hindmargin and with the anterior edge waved. The hindwings are pale whitish-ochreous, yellowish-tinged and with the apex more ochreous-yellowish, sometimes slightly rosy-tinged.^[1]

The larvae feed on various Eucalyptus species, living in a tubular silken shelter, spun in a curled leaf of the host plant. They are green with white intersegmental rings and reach a length of about 30 mm.^[2]

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