Bondia caseata Meyrick, 1910
CARPOSINIDAE,   COPROMORPHOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Bondia caseata
(Photo: courtesy of Victor Fazio, Tinonee, New south Wales)

The adult moth has dark brown forewings, each with an obscure pattern, and a pale orange spot near the middle. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.8 cms.

Bondia caseata
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species occurs in

  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • South Australia.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 35 (1910), pp. 143-144, No. 1.


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    (written 28 December 2018, updated 19 January 2022)