SHOENOTENINI, 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 yellow forewings, each with scattered fragmented black markings, including a large black patch at the middle of the costa. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the wingtips. The head, thorax, and abdomen are yellow. The wingspan is about 1.4 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Tortricina,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 32 (1908), pp. 320-321.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 16 June 2019)