Constrictana constrictana Walker, 1866
 (formerly known as Tortrix constrictana)
ARCHPIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Constrictana constrictana
(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Mallacoota, Victoria)

The adult moth of this species has brown wings with a variable pattern of vague dark markings often including an elongated dark triangle along the costa.

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

The species occurs in:

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    This species is the nominal species in the Constrictana Group, elevated by some taxonomists to genus Constrictana, which includes the species formerly named

  • Capua catharia,
  • Capua ephedra,
  • Capua ischnomorpha,
  • Capua leptospila,
  • Capua montanana,
  • Capua notograpta,
  • Capua oxygona,
  • Tortrix constrictana, and
  • Tortrix plagiomochla.

    • Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 35, Supplement 5 (1866), pp. 1785-1786.

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    (written 2 February 2021)