Anameristes cyclopleura (Turner, 1916)
(formerly known as Eboda cyclopleura)
TORTRICINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Anameristes cyclopleura
(Photo: courtesy of Alison Pearson, Proserpine, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has speckled brown forewings, each with a variable pale patch on the hind margin, and a dispersed band of black dots across the middle. The hindwings are off-white shading to pale brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

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

The species is found in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera of the family Tortricidae,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 40 (1916), p. 522.


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    (written 14 June 2019, updated 27 January 2023)