Ericodesma leptosticha (Turner, 1916) (formerly known as Epichorista leptosticha) ARCHIPINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Reiner Richter, Mount Buffalo, Victoria)

The adult moth of this species has fawn forewings, each with white markings that include a stripe along the costa, and smaller stripe from the middle to the margin. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the wingtips. The hindwings have recurved margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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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. 516.

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(written 17 June 2019, updated 16 February 2026)