Pammenemina tetramita (Turner, 1925)
 (previously known as Laspeyresia tetramita)
GRAPHOLITINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Pammenemina tetramita
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has forewings that are dark brown with complex blue and grey markings. The hindwings are white with brown veins. The blue fades to pale brown in old specimens. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

Pammenemina tetramita
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, listed as Titanotoca tetramita)

The species occurs in Australia in:

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading:

    Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
    Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
    CSIRO Publishing, 2007, pp. 401-406.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 49 (1925), p. 60.

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    (written 18 October 2012, updated 6 July 2019, 27 September 2020)