Xylorycta species are found in Africa and Australia and are strongly associated with the plant family Proteaceae, being found on Hakea, Lambertia, Grevillea, Leptospermum, Macadamia, Oreocallis, Persoonia and Telopea.

The larvae of some species bore into stems or branches, or the flower spikes of Banksia, but most live in a silk gallery spun in the foliage.

[1] The genus was first published by amateur entomologist Edward Meyrick in 1890 in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.

In older classifications it was placed in the subfamily Xyloryctinae, in the family Oecophoridae.

This article on a moth of the family Xyloryctidae is a stub.