Rhomboceros homogama (Meyrick, 1910)
 (formerly known as Homona homogama)
EPITYMBIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Rhomboceros homogama
(Photo: courtesy of Sarah Renneberg, Johnstone, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has pale brown forewings, each with two vague dark areas on the costa, and sometimes a larger dark triangle on the hind-margin. The hindwings are off-white darkening along the hind-margin. All four wings have slightly recurved margins. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Tortricina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 35 (1910), p. 211, No. 139.

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    (written 24 June 2019, updated 17 February 2026)