Temnolopha mosaica Lower, 1901
 (possible synonym : Cydia clydonias Meyrick, 1907)
OLETHREUTINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Temnolopha mosaica
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth has brown wings with swirly dark markings on the forewings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species occurs in south-east Asia, including

  • Cambodia,
  • Java,
  • Philippines,
  • Sri Lanka, and
  • Thailand

    and also Australia in:

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland
    .

    Temnolopha mosaica
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

    Further reading:

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

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptons of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 25 (1901), pp. 72-73.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera,
    Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society,
    Volume 17 (1907), p. 734.

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    (written 17 October 2012, updated 2 July 2019)