(previously known as: Tortix australana)
Leaf Roller Moth
TORTRICINAE , TORTRICIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Pat & Mike Coupar
and
Stella Crossley
(Photo from:
"Flying Colours", Coupar & Coupar, 1992)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Pat & Mike Coupar
and
Stella Crossley
(Photo from:
"Flying Colours", Coupar & Coupar, 1992)
This Caterpillar is brownish green with orange spots and sparse white hairs all over its body. It feeds on:
living in a communal shelter of leaves joined with silk on the foodplant. It grows to a length of about 3 cms.
It pupates in its shelter.
The adult has grey wings with rusty brown markings. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms.
It occurs over south-eastern Australia.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp. 32, 278.
Pat and Mike Coupar,
Flying Colours,
New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1992, p. 90.
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(updated 25 January 2009)