Rupicolana rupicolana (Meyrick, 1881) (formerly known as Dipterina rupicolana) ARCHIPINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a faint reticulated pattern which is easily smudged. The hindwings are off-white with a similar reticulated pattern, darkening at the wingtips. All four wings have slightly recurved margins. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in Australia in

New South Wales.

This species is the nominal species in the Rupicolana Group, elevated by some taxonomists to genus Rupicolana, which includes the species formerly named

Cnephasia argyrocosma,

Cnephasia bleptodora,

Cnephasia catarrapha,

Cnephasia contortula,

Cnephasia crotala,

Cnephasia lenaea,

Cnephasia mermera,

Cnephasia orthias,

Cnephasia phosphora,

Cnephasia stereodes,

Cnephasia thiopasta,

Dipterina gnophodryas,

Dipterina tribolana,

Epichorista serena,

Proselena camacinana,

Tortrix celatrix, and

Tortrix polymicta.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. V. Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 6, Part 3 (1881), pp. 526-527, No. 4.

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(written 24 June 2019)