Red-bodied Wingia Moth: Dorsal

Red-bodied Wingia Moth (Tortricopsis semijunctella)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Wingia Moth (:Gelechioidea Oecophoridae Wingia) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Red-bodied Wingia Moth (Tortricopsis semijunctella)

This Photo:

Dorsal

Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
Head & body is ~10mm, with a wingspan of ~13mm.
Very red body, with pale orange highlights and hind-wings. The fore-wings are pale brown, darkening at the edges with red speckles in the trailing margin.
The red scales around the base of palps give this species a wedge-nosed appearance.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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