Paranepsia amydra Turner, 1916 CNEPHASIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Larney Grenfell, Witta, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has pale brown forewings, each crossed by a vague pale zigzag band edged with variable dark markings. The hindwings are off-white with grey veins. All four wings have slightly recurved wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera of the family Tortricidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 40 (1916), p. 520.

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(written 23 June 2019, updated 16 February 2026)