The caterpillars live in a shelter constructed by binding together leaves on the end of a branch with silk.

The adult moths have forewings each with a large area along the costa that is dark brown, and the rest of the forewing is pale brown, paler along the margin, and with a row of dark dots along the hind margin. The dark area contains variable black markings. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species occurs in Australia in:

Further Reading

Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera series. Vol. 10,
CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 193-196.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 40 (1916), pp. 530-531.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Contributions to our knowledge of the Australian Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) Part II,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 70 (1946), p. 205.

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(written 21 January 2013, updated 3 February 2017, 2 July 2019, 24 September 2020)