This adult moth has rusty brown forewings each with a dark mark on the costa. The hindwings are yellow. The abdomen is yellow, with red hairs along the sides. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

drawing by Edward Newman and G.H. Ford, listed as Tortricopsis rosabella,
Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, Collected by Mr. Thomas R. Oxley,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, New Series, Volume 3 (1856), Plate XVIII, fig. 8,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in :

showing underside
(Photo: courtesy of Susan Wishart, Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory)

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I: The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, pp. 29, 236, 237-241.

Edward Newman,
Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, Collected by Mr. Thomas R. Oxley,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
New Series, Volume III, Number 8 (1856),pp. 293-294, and also Plate 18, fig. 8.

Philipp Christoph Zeller,
Die Depressarien undeinige ihnen nahe stehende Gattungen,
Linnaea Entomologica (Linn. Ent., Berlin),
Volume 9 (1854), pp. 355-356.

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(updated 1 November 2012, 29 December 2018, 1 November 2020)