Cryptaspasma sordida (Turner, 1945)
 (one synonym is Idiomorpha reticulata Turner, 1946)
MICROCORSINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Cryptaspasma sordida
(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Greenleigh, New South Wales)

The Caterpillars of this species have been found feeding on the fruits of

  • Red Apple ( Acmena ingens, MYRTACEAE ).

    Cryptaspasma sordida
    (Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Greenleigh, New South Wales)

    The adult moth has patchy dark brown forewings, each with an especially darker patch in the middle by a tiny white spot. A dorsal tuft of dark scales can be erected on the metathorax. The hindwings are uniformly brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

    The species has been found in

  • Borneo,
  • Fiji,
  • New Caledonia,
  • Malaysia,
  • Sumatra

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales, and
  • Australian Capital Territory.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 28.7, p. 279.

    Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
    Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
    CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 29, 70-73.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Contributions to our knowledge of the Australian Tortricidae (Lepidoptera),
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 69 (1945), p. 65.

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    (written 24 April 2019, updated 7 October 2023)