EUCOSMINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)
The adult moth of this species has fawn streaky forewings, each with a vague eaxtra dark streak along the middle of the wing. The hindwings are uniformly fawn.
The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 373-375.
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. 189.
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(written 26 July 2019, updated 27 September 2020)