Euphona ammochroa (Lower, 1893)
 (one synonym is Capua acritodes Meyrick, 1910)
EPITYMBIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Euphona ammochroa
(Photo: courtesy of Mike, Adelaide, South Australia)

The adult moth of this species has forewings that are off-white, with dark brown markings. The hindwings are pale brown shading darker toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.7 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • Victoria, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 17, Part 1 (1893), pp. 167-168.

    Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
    Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
    Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), pp. 60-61.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 35 (1910), p. 190, Nos. 85, 86.

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    (written 17 October 2019, updated 16 February 2026)