| (one synonym is Argyroploce nephobola Turner, 1946) OLETHREUTINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nicholas John Fisher,
Lismore, New South Wales)
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| (one synonym is Argyroploce nephobola Turner, 1946) OLETHREUTINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nicholas John Fisher,
Lismore, New South Wales)
The adult moths have speckled brown forewings, each with a large golden patch on the margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The hindwings each have a slight recurve in the shape of the margin. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.
repaired digitally
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph, listed as Cnephasia ochroptila)
The species has been found in:
Further reading :
Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
CSIRO Publishing, 2006, pp. 30, 89-93.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 35 (1910), p. 279, No. 265.
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. 217.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 24 April 2019, updated 2 February 2023)