Bondia caseata Meyrick, 1910 CARPOSINIDAE,   COPROMORPHOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Victor Fazio, Tinonee, New south Wales)

The adult moth has dark brown forewings, each with an obscure pattern, and a pale orange spot near the middle. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.8 cms.

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

The species occurs in

South Australia.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 35 (1910), pp. 143-144, No. 1.

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(written 28 December 2018, updated 19 January 2022)