Asthenoptycha iriodes (Lower, 1898) (previously known as Anatropia iriodes) EPITYMBIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)

The adult moth of this species has brown and white forewings, each with a black area by the base, and a wide irregular black transverse band. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

The species has been found in :

Victoria.

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

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Further reading

Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera: with a note on Deilephila livornica, Esp.,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 23 (1898), p. 48.

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(updated 2 June 2011, 31 May 2025)