Epitrichosma neurobapta Lower, 1908 SHOENOTENINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of David Tng, Danbulla, Queensland)

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.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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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, updated 16 February 2026)