Syntozyga psammetalla Lower, 1901
(possible synonym : Eucosma fulva Turner, 1946)
BACTRINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Syntozyga psammetalla
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth has speckled brown forewings. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species occurs in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading

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

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptons of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 25 (1901), pp. 70-71.


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    (written 12 October 2012)