Oegoconia caradjai is a species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 of gelechioid moth. It is known from most of Europe, except Fennoscandia

Fennoscandia

Fennoscandia and Fenno-Scandinavia are geographic and geological terms used to describe the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Kola Peninsula, Karelia and Finland...

 and the north-east. It is also found in New Zealand

New Zealand

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The wingspan

Wingspan

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 is about 15 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August in a single generation in western Europe. Indoors, they can be observed till October.

The larvae feed on leaf litter, vegetable detritus, rotten leaves and can also be found in waste of straw in barns and stables. Pupation takes place in a loose cocoon, covered with excrements amongst leaf litter.

Systematics and taxonomy

It belongs to the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Symmocidae

Symmocidae

The Symmocidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. These small moths are found mainly in the Palearctic and Africa.They have traditionally been considered close relatives of the Blastobasidae, where they were sometimes included as subfamily Symmocinae...

, which is sometimes included in the case-bearers (Coleophoridae) or united with the concealer moth subfamily Autostichinae

Autostichinae

The Autostichinae are a subfamily of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Like their relatives therein, their exact relationships are not yet very well resolved...

. Oegoconia is the type genus of the symmocid subfamily Oegoconiinae (or tribe

Tribe (biology)

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Oegoconiini, if the symmocids are merged into another family).