Anisogona simana Meyrick, 1881
(one synonym : Batodes argillina Turner, 1945)
EPITYMBIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
&
Stella Crossley

Anisogona simana
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species are brown, with each forewing having dark-outlined pale patches. The forewings have doubly curved costas, and have partly concave margins with a cusp about halfway. The hindwings are plain brown.

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

The species occurs in:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    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. 465-466, No. 1.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 213.


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    (written 4 January 2014, 10 January 2017, 15 June 2019)