Holocola melanographa (Turner, 1916)
 (formerly known as Bathrotoma melanographa)
EUCOSMINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Holocola melanographa
(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Morwell National Park, Victoria)

The adult moths have pale greyish brown forewings that each are peppered with dark marks, including a broken dark streak from base to margin. The hindwings are pale grey. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

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

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera of the family Tortricidae,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 40 (1916), p. 523.

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    (written 23 January 2017, updated 25 February 2024)