Overview
A small, mainly Asian-Australian family. The adults of
Copromorpha
(8 spp.) and
Phycomorpha
(1 sp.) rest with the wings folded flat above the abdomen and have tufts on the fore wing.
Description
Small; head smooth-scaled, scales long and slender; ocelli present or absent; antennae simple, unipectinate or rarely bipectinate; maxillary palps small, 1- or 4-segmented; labial palps prominent and upturned or long and porrect; epiphysis present; hind tibiae usually with long hair-scales above, sometimes (
Osidryas
) with dorsal hair-pencil; fore wing usually with raised scale-tufts, vestigial chorda and M-stem sometimes present in cell, R
5
to termen, M
3
and CuA
1
approximated at base, CuP vestigial or present near margin, 1A + 2A fork short; hind wing broader than fore wing, female with 2 or 3 frenular bristles, Rs and M
1
parallel, CuA usually with pecten, CuP present. Larva stout with short ventral prolegs and uniordinal crochets in complete circle or sometimes biserial inner crochets; spiracles slightly protruding, spiracles on segment 8 more dorsal; tunnels in leaf veins, twigs and fruit or between joined leaves. Pupa in larval gallery or silk-lined cell.
Distribution
P
.
prasinochroa
is rich green and occurs in rainforests in eastern Qld and N.S.W.: the white larva bores in stems, twigs and fruits of cultivated or native figs or feeds between leaves of
Ficus
coronata
; it pupates in a silk-lined cell. The larger
C
.
lichenitis
is known from rainforest in southern Qld and northern N.S.W.
Osidryas
(2 spp.), which occurs in rainforests in eastern Qld and north-eastern N.S.W. has long, porrect palps, and lacks scale-tufts and a cubital pecten.