Heliocosma rhodopnoana Meyrick, 1881 HELIOCOSMA Group,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Reiner Richter, Mooralla, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have pink forewings, each with a variety of brown-edged white bands. The hindwings are pale silvery brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in :

Westrn Australia.

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Further reading

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. VI. Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 6, Part 3 (1881), pp. 694-695, No. 1.

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(written 23 December 2018, updated 26 November 2023)