Euobraztsovia chionodelta (Meyrick, 1911)
(previously known as Argyroploce chionodelta)
OLETHREUTINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Euobraztsovia chionodelta
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Mission Beach, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has dark brown forewings each with two white patches on the hind margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    and also in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

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

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 36, Part 2 (1911), pp. 274-275, No. 395.


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    (written 3 April 2013, updated 1 July 2019)