Sorolopha archimedias (Meyrick, 1912)
(previously known as : Argyroploce archimedias)
 OLETHREUTINAE ,   TORTRICIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

Sorolopha archimedias
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville)

The caterpillars of this species sometimes are a pest on:

  • Cinnamon ( Cinnamomum verum, LAURACEAE )
  • Camphor Laurel ( Cinnamomum camphora, LAURACEAE ) and
  • Cloves ( Syzygium aromaticum, MYRTACEAE ).

    The caterpillars live in a silken web, spun between the leaves of a foodplant.

    The adult moth has brown forewings with a pale area at each apex with a white outline containing a large brown spot, and a white outlined brown area of erect scales at the back of the thorax.. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

    The species occurs across south-east Asia, including:

  • China,
  • India,
  • Thailand,
    as well as:
  • Queensland, in Australia.

    Further reading:

    Alexey Diakonoff,
    The South Asiatic Olethreutini: (Lepidoptera Tortricidae). 1973, Brill (Leiden). p. 54.

    Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai
    Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10, CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 94-98.

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    (updated 11 October 2009)