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Family COPROMORPHIDAE

Introduction

[After Common 1996]
Most of the Australian species were described by Turner (1916) in the Tortricidae but they were placed in the Copromorphidae by Common (1970). The family has not been revised in Australia. Common (1990) provides some biological information.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. 1970. Lepidoptera (Moths and butterflies). pp. 765-866, pls 7, 8. in Mackerras, I.M. (ed.). Insects of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press

Common, I.F.B. 1990. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls

Common, I.F.B. 1996. Copromorphidae. p. 151 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM

Turner, A.J. 1916. New Australian Lepidoptera of the family Tortricidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40: 498-536