Metrioglypha phyllodes (Lower, 1899)
(formerly known as Dipterina phyllodes)
OLETHREUTINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Metrioglypha phyllodes
(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moth has brown forewings with complex patterns. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening towards the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading

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

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 24 (1899), p. 93.


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    (written 12 October 2018)