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]