Tetramoera gracilistria (Turner, 1946)
 (previously known as Eucosma gracilistria)
ENARMONIINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Tetramoera gracilistria
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth has fawn forewings with sinuous stripey patterns, and plain grey hindwings. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species occurs in Australia in

  • Western Australia,
  • Nortern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading:

    Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
    Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
    CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 286-292.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Contributions to our knowledge of the Australian Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) Part II,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 70 (1946), p. 206.

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    (updated 17 September 2009, 2 July 2019, 15 November 2020)