(formerly known as Bathrotoma spodostola) EUCOSMINI, OLETHREUTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dianne Clarke,
Maleny, Queensland)
The adult moth has off-white forewings, each with variable dark markings, often including a vague dark stripe from the middle of the wing to the margin, and a number of dark diagonal ticks along the costa. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.8 cms.
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. 364, 366-368.
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), pp. 189-190.
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(written 21 January 2023)