| (possible synonym : Epichorista pleurosema Turner, 1916) BACTRINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
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| (possible synonym : Epichorista pleurosema Turner, 1916) BACTRINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
The adult moth has speckled grey forewings with a dark mark near each tornus. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in in Australia in
Further reading:
Alexey Diakonoff,
Bactrae,
The South Asiatic Olethreutini: (Lepidoptera Tortricidae),
1973, Brill (Leiden). pp. 339-340, 514.
Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 212-216.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 36, Part 2 (1911), pp. 257-258, No. 363.
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(updated 16 September 2009, 21 December 2024)