Nutgrass Borer (previously known as Phoxopteris venosana) BACTRINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
These Caterpillars bore into and feed on :
The adult moths have grey forewings that have complex brown markings. The hindwings are plain grey. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species is native to the area:
as well as Australia in:
Further reading :
Alexey Diakonoff,
Bactrae,
The South Asiatic Olethreutini: (Lepidoptera Tortricidae),
1973, Brill (Leiden). p. 357.
Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 207-211.
Philipp C. Zeller,
Bemerkungen über die auf einer Reise nach Italien und Sicilien
beobachteten Schmetterlingsarten,
Isis von Oken, Jena,
Volume 12 (1847), pp. 738-739, No. 301.
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