(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths are pale brown. The forewings each have two dark chevrons. The hindwings are plain.

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

The male moths have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms. The females have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

upper: male; lower: female
(Photo: courtesy of Daniel Montes, McKellar, Australian Capital Territory)

The species has been found in :

and in Australia in :

eggs
(Photo: courtesy of Daniel Montes, McKellar, Australian Capital Territory)

The eggs are pale yellow and oval, with a diameter of about 1 mm. They are laid anywhere, scattered in an untidy mess of up to a 100.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 32.18, pp. 66, 351.

Francis Walker,
Crambites & Tortricites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 27 (1863), p. 175, No. 129.

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(updated 26 March 2011, 9 October 2013, 22 May 2021, 20 February 2022)