on various Australian native shrubs including :

The adult moth is pale with sparse dark markings. The hind wings have wide hairy fringes. The antennae are nearly as long as the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.4 cms.

The species has been found in Tasmania.

Further reading :

Richard Bashford,
The insect complex inhabiting galls formed by Cecidomyia acaciaelongifoliae Skuse (Diptera: CECIDOMYIIDAE) on Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) in Tasmania. The Australian Entomologist, Volume 33, Part 1 (March 2006), pp. 1-4.

Richard Bashford,
The insect fauna inhabiting Uromycladium (Uredinales) rust galls on Silver Wattle (Acacia dealbata) in Tasmania, The Australian Entomologist, Volume 29, Part 3 (September 2002), pp. 81-95.

Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia, Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993, pp. ix,x,10,246-252,263,279.

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