(formerly known as Epichorista leptosticha) ARCHIPINI, 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 fawn forewings, each with white markings that include a stripe along the costa, and smaller stripe from the middle to the margin. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the wingtips. The hindwings have recurved margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found 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. 516.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 17 June 2019)