Overview
The adults fly in May.
Description
Small to medium-sized; head rough, with piliform scales, Australian species with pair of prominent raised neck tufts; ocelli present or absent (absent in Australian species); antennae filiform, pecten well developed, each flagellar segment with small group of lamellar scales on lateral surface, cilia long; with setose pilifers; proboscis present, naked; maxillary palps 4-segmented or reduced; labial palps 3-segmented, porrect, with long appressed scales and lateral bristles; epiphysis present (in Australian species) or absent; spurs 0-2-4; wings slender; fore wing with chorda and M-stem present in cell, R
5
to termen; valva long, with single ventral thorn-like sensillum; ovipositor telescopic, segment 8 with dorsal free or X-shaped costae. Pupa with single transverse row of teeth on abdominal terga.
Distribution
This South American, African, European and Asian family (Nielsen 1978) has a single Australian representative,
Eucryptogona
trichobathra
, known only from Broken Hill in western N.S.W.