Macrobathra anacampta Meyrick, 1914 COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Mallacoota, Victoria)

The adult moths have black forewings each with four white bands, the outer one being curved. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening towards brown wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Tortricidae
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1915), p. 217.

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(written 26 January 2017, updated 6 June 2021)