![]() | (formerly known as Articolla prospera) ENARMONIINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nicholas John Fisher,
Lismore, New South Wales)
The Caterpillars of this species have been found feeding on the fruits of
The adult moths have brown forewings each with intricate pattern. The hindwings are pale brown. At rest: the forewings are partly folded to show concave costas. The thorax is pale grey with a dark brown trapezium at the middle. The wingspan is about 1.7 cms.
The species has been found in:
as well as in Australia 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. 257-262.
Edward Meyrick,
Indian Micro-Lepidoptera,
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society,
Volume 19 (1909), p. 591.
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(written 23 April 2019, updated 11 May 2024)