Isochorista chaodes Meyrick, 1910 ARCHIPINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth of this species has off-white forewings, each with three variable irregular broad diagonal brown bands. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 35 (1910), pp. 168-169, No. 42.

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(written 13 December 2024)