Cryptophlebia wraggae Horak & Komai, 2014
GRAPHOLITINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Cryptophlebia wraggae
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths have rusty brown forewings each with some dark marks, and with an orange spot on the hind margin. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species occurs in Australia, including:

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.


    Further reading:

    Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
    Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1900, Thaumatotibia Zacher, 1915, and Archiphlebia Komai & Horak, 2006, in Australia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Grapholitini),
    Zootaxa,
    Volume 4179, Part 3 (2016), pp. 441–477.


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    (written 2 August 2013, updated 1 July 2019)