Symphygas nephaula (Meyrick, 1910) (formerly known as Tortrix nephaula) CNEPHASIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Jim Duggan, Wellington Park, Tasmania)

The adult moths have speckled brown forewings, each crossed by two broad darker bands, and with a dark wing-tip. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the wing-tips. All four wings have slightly recurved margins. The labial palps are as long as the head. 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:

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 35 (1910), p. 251, No. 210.

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(written 27 June 2019, updated 10 May 2024)