Strepsicrates macropetana (Meyrick)

Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 2 (dried) Ambleside, 2km NE Verdun, 35°00.28’S 138°48.38’E, G.S. Taylor, 13.x.2001 , from woody, axial leaf-bud gall on E. camaldulensis (em. in lab from 22.x.2001) (WINC 040191) .

Notes on biology. Strepsicrates macropetana, the eucalypt leafroller, is recorded as tunnelling in live Fergusonina galls (Taylor et al. 2005). It is here recorded from galls of F. nodulosa sp. nov., where the moth emerges from its pupal case extruded from a tunnel in fresh galls.