1. PaDIL Species Factsheet

Scientific Name: Barea confusella (Walker, 1864) (: : )

Common Name Concealer Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141474

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2.1. Details Specimen Contact: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory - [email protected] Author: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory Citation: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory (2011) Concealer Moth(Barea confusella)Updated on 3/19/2014 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0)

2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141474

2.3. Facets Commodity Overview: Horticulture Commodity Type: Kiwifruit Distribution: 0 Unknown Status: NZ - Exotic Groups: Host Family: 0 Unknown Pest Status: 0 Unknown

2.4. Diagnostic Notes **Adult**

Wingspan about 2 cm. Forewings with a blotchy black and white pattern, hindwings a silky fawn colour. Uncus of moderate length, distally slightly down-curved; gnathos long, slender, beak- like, arms scobinate above, distal section of gnathos scobinate at base; valva broad at base, tapering distally, costa setose, distally produced to a long, apically acute process, having a tapering, outwardly directed ventral projection, sacculus with an inwardly directed distal process, a raised, setose pulvinus near base of costa; juxta bilobed, fusiform appendages well-defined, from base to near valval pulvinus; aedeagus strongly recurved at base, ventral margin of orifice drawn out to a fine apex, cornutus a long, sinuous spine.

**References**

- Common, I.F.B. (2000). _Oecophorine Genera of Australia III_. The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs of Australian Lepidoptera, Vol. 8. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, 453 pp.

2.5. References - Common, I.F.B. (2000). _Oecophorine Genera of Australia III_. The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs of Australian Lepidoptera, Vol. 8. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, 453 pp.

2.6. Web Links Caterpillars: especially Australian ones: http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/oeco/confus.html 3. Diagnostic Images

LEP63 LEP63 Dorsal - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Dorsal - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP63 LEP63 Headfront - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Headside - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP63 LEP63 Headside - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Headtop - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF LEP63 LEP63 Lateral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Lateral - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP63 LEP63 Pro-legs - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Ventral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP63 LEP63 Ventral - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Wing - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF 4. Other Images Results Generated: Monday, September 27, 2021