Choristis discotypa (Turner, 1916) (formerly known as Heliocosma discotypa) HELIOCOSMA Group,   TORTRICOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Larney Grenfell, Witta, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with rusty areas around the base and around the margin, and a rusty band across the middle. The hindwings are grey. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in :

Queensland.

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Further reading

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera of the family Tortricidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 40 (1916), pp. 501-502.

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(written 23 December 2018, updated 26 November 2023)