Dichelopa panoplana (Meyrick, 1881)
(previously known as Dichelia panoplana)
ARCHIPINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Dichelopa panoplana
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

These caterpillars live in a rolled up leaf of their foodplant. They have been found feeding on

  • Sticky Hopbush ( Dodonaea viscosa, SAPINDACEAE ).

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

    The adult moth has speckled rusty brown forewings, each with two incomplete pale yellow transverse bands. The hindwings are plain dark rusty brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

    The species has been found in :

  • Western Australia,
  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Australian Capital Territory.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera VI: Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 1, Volume 6, Part 3 (1881), pp. 480-481, No. 13.


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    (updated 29 July 2011, 7 July 2019)