| Xylorycta luteotactella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Xylorycta |
| Species: | X. luteotactella |
| Binomial name | |
| Xylorycta luteotactella (Walker, 1864) |
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Xylorycta luteotactella, commonly known as the macadamia twig girdler, is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is found in Australia. The caterpillars cause economic damage to waratah and macadamia crops, the former by disfiguring the developing flowerheads.[1]
Native to much of eastern Australia, it was first described by English entomologist Francis Walker in 1864 as Cryptolechia cognatella.