CNEPHASIINI, TORTRICINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has pale brown forewings, each crossed by a vague pale zigzag band edged with variable dark markings. The hindwings are off-white with grey veins. All four wings have slightly recurved wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera of the family Tortricidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 40 (1916), p. 520.
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(written 23 June 2019)