Bactra scalopias Meyrick, 1911
 BACTRINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Bactra scalopias
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths have speckled brown forewings each with a vague dark line along the middle intersecting a dark round blob and a dark 'V'-shaped blob, and curving to end at the wingtip. The forewing costa has over a dozen short diagonal dark streaks of various sizes, and the hindmargin also has a dozen or so dark marks. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in:

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
    Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
    CSIRO Publishing, 2006, p. 210.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 36, Part 2 (1911), p. 255, No. 359.

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    (written 7 November 2022)