Isochorista panaeolana Meyrick, 1881
ARCHIPINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Isochorista panaeolana
(Photo: courtesy of Reiner Richter, Monbulk, Victoria)

The adult moth of this species has wings that are orange or yellow, with approximately seven pale grey diagonal bands interspersed by black wiggly lines across each forewing. The black lines each end in a set of a dozen or so black spots on the forewing costa. The hindwings are dark grey. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

Isochorista panaeolana
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in :

  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • Tasmania.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera VI: Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 1, Volume 6, Part 3 (1881), pp. 425-426, No. 2.


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    (updated 11 December 2022)