Epitrichosma neurobapta Lower, 1908
SHOENOTENINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Epitrichosma neurobapta
(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

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Australian Tortricina,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 32 (1908), pp. 320-321.


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    (written 16 June 2019)