Heliocosma exoeca Meyrick, 1910
 HELIOCOSMA Group,   TORTRICOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Heliocosma exoeca
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have silvery white forewings with a number of brown lines and patches of raised brown scales. The hindwings are silvery white. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

This species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 35 (1910), p. 160, No. 29.

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    (written 30 December 2012, updated 17 March 2018, 30 July 2019)