![]() | Cotton Tipworm Moth (one synonym : Penthina altheana Mann, 1855) EUCOSMINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Dave Britton & Stella Crossley |
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These Caterpillars bore into the tips and fruit of plants in the family MALVACEAE, including :
and is an agricultural pest on
They have also been found feeding on :
The adult moths are a pale patchy brown. Their wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species is found worldwide, including
as well as over the whole of Australia, including:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 28.4, pp. 68, 280.
Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 301-306.
Philipp C. Zeller,
Bemerkungen über die auf einer Reise nach Italien und Sicilien
beobachteten Schmetterlingsarten,
Isis von Oken, Jena, Heft 10 (1847), pp. 721-722, No. 283.
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(updated 16 September 2013, 21 December 2024)