Anisogona mediana (Walker, 1863)
 (one synonym is Tortrix acrothecta Turner, 1927)
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Don Herbison-Evans
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Stella Crossley

Anisogona mediana
(Photo: courtesy of David Mules , Morwell National Park , Victoria)

The adult moths of this species are brown with dark speckles, with each forewing having some dark spots along the costa, and sometimes a dark patch along the hind-margin. The hindwings are pale brown with dark spts by the wingtips. The forewings have a slight recurve in each of the three edges: the costa, the outer margin, and the hind margin. The hindwings have a concave outer margin. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

Anisogona mediana
(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 :

    Francis Walker,
    Tortricites & Tineites,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 28 (1863), p. 311, No. 12.

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    (written 18 October 2017, updated 6 July 2019, 19 September 2020)