Carposina pinarodes Meyrick, 1910 CARPOSINIDAE,   COPROMORPHOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Bevan Buirchell , Nanga Brook, Western Australia)

The adult moth has off-white forewings, with dark brown markings including several incomplete transverse wiggly lines. The hindwings are plain white shading to grey at the wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Western 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. 152-153, No. 17.

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(written 20 February 2026)