(one synonym : Acroclita ochronota Turner, 1925) EUCOSMINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
The adult moths have greyish brown forewings that each have a broad jagged pale area along the hind margin, and a dozen diagonal dark marks along the costa. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species occurs 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.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera VI,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 6, Part 3 (1881), pp. 673-674, No. 4.
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(updated 2 July 2019, 27 September 2020, 2 July 2021)