| (one synonym is Acropolitis heliochares Lower, 1898) | (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris, Morwell National Park, Victoria)
|
| (one synonym is Acropolitis heliochares Lower, 1898) | (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris, Morwell National Park, Victoria)
The adult female moth of this species has spotty off-white forewings, each with several variable dark brown irregular oblique markings. The females' hindwings are brown, each with an off-white stripe along the costa.
The male moths have forewings that have a yellow basal half and a dark brown marginal half. The males' hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the margins. The wingspan of both sexes is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 1, Part 4 (1887), pp. 1038-1039.
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(written 22 January 2017)