Red-bodied Wingia Moth
Profile
Red-bodied Wingia Moth
Face
| Red-bodied Wingia Moth Profile | | Red-bodied Wingia Moth Face | | ||
 | 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: | Hindwings | ||||
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. | |||||
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