Epitymbia cosmota (Meyrick, 1887) (one synonym is Acropolitis heliochares Lower, 1898) EPITYMBIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.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.

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

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.

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

The species has been found in :

South Australia.

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Further reading :

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), pp. 60-61.

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, updated 8 July 2019, 26 September 2020)