Ancylis coronopa (Meyrick, 1911) (formerly known as Acroclita coronopa) ENARMONIINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each with various markings including a broad pale sinuous band from base along to the middle of the costa and across to the middle of the hind margin and on to the tornus. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The species has been found in:

Tasmania.

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

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Further reading :

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

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera VI Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 36, Part 3 (1911), pp. 237-238, No. 324.

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(written 11 November 2021)