Ancylis himerodana (Meyrick, 1881) (formerly known as Palaeobia himerodana) ENARMONIINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Michael Quinn, Mount Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths have brown forewings each with various markings including a black-edged white streak from the base ending in a large oval grey patch, several pairs of short white diagonal marks along the costa, and a white blob on the margin by the wingtip. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

Australian Capital Territory, and.

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Further reading :

Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
CSIRO Publishing, 2006, p. 235.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera VI Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 6, Part 3 (1881), pp. 666-667, No. 6.

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(written 18 April 2024)