Polylopha epidesma

Polylopha epidesma is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1901.[2] It is found in India, Sri Lanka and Australia.[3]

Polylopha epidesma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Genus:
Polylopha
Species:
P. epidesma
Binomial name
Polylopha epidesma
Lower, 1901[1]
Synonyms
  • Oxygrapha porpacias Meyrick, 1908
  • Peronea epidesma Meyrick, 1910
  • Colocyttara epidesma Turner, 1925

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are ashy-grey whitish, mixed with greenish leaden, and strewn with numerous tufts of ashy-grey scales, which become blackish posteriorly. The hindwings are dark fuscous, but lighter on the basal half.[4] Its larval food plant is Polyalthia longifolia.[5]

References
  1. Tortricidae.com
  2. "Species Details: Polylopha epidesma Lower, 1901". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  3. Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 – via Academia.
  4. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
  5. Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 – via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.


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