Cryptophlebia wraggae Horak & Komai, 2014 GRAPHOLITINI,   OLETHREUTINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths have rusty brown forewings each with some dark marks, and with an orange spot on the hind margin. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in Australia, including:

Queensland.

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Further reading:

Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1900, Thaumatotibia Zacher, 1915, and Archiphlebia Komai & Horak, 2006, in Australia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Grapholitini),
Zootaxa,
Volume 4179, Part 3 (2016), pp. 441–477.

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(written 2 August 2013, updated 21 December 2024)