Syntozyga anconia (Meyrick, 1911)
(possible synonym : Epichorista pleurosema Turner, 1916)
BACTRINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth has speckled grey forewings with a dark mark near each tornus. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species occurs in in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading:

    Alexey Diakonoff,
    Bactrae,
    The South Asiatic Olethreutini: (Lepidoptera Tortricidae),
    1973, Brill (Leiden). pp. 339-340, 514.

    Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
    Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
    CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 212-216.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 36, Part 2 (1911), pp. 257-258, No. 363.


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    (updated 16 September 2009, 2 July 2019)