Eupselia callidyas Meyrick, 1915 HYPERTROPHIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has forewings that are dark brown with a purple sheen, and that each have complex markings including a large yellow triangle across the middle, and a tapering set of four eyespots along the margin. The hindwings are brown with a broad white band along the costas. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Tortricidae
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1915), p. 306.

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(written 12 September 2018)