Carposina smaragdias Turner, 1916
 CARPOSINIDAE,   COPROMORPHOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Carposina smaragdias
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has green forewings, each with grey or brown markings including a dark crescent near the costa. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

Carposina smaragdias
(Photo: courtesy of Dick Whitford, Wondecla, Queensland)

The species has been found in

  • Queensland.

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

    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 22.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera of the family Tortricidae,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 40 (1916), pp. 498-499.

    Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
    A Guide to Australian Moths, CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 119.

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    (updated 3 December 2010, 2 September 2018, 8 October 2021)