Biology:Carposina scirrhosella
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Short description: Species of moth
| Carposina scirrhosella | |
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| A larva of Carposina scirrhosella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Carposinidae |
| Genus: | Carposina |
| Species: | C. scirrhosella
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| Binomial name | |
| Carposina scirrhosella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854[1]
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Carposina scirrhosella, the peach fruit moth, is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is found from Germany , Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria to the Middle East.[2]
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The wingspan is 11–15 mm. The forewings are whitish. The hindwings are whitish in males and somewhat darkened in females. Adults are on wing from June to August.
The larvae feed on Rosa species. They feed inside the fruit of their host plant. They eject small frass packages which can be found on the exterior of the rose hip.[3]
References
- ↑ "Fauna Europaea". Faunaeur.org. http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=438363. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ↑ "The First finding of the species Carposina scirrhosella Herrich-schäffer, 1854 (Lepidoptera, Copromorphoidea, Carposinidae) in Serbia" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20120402072009/http://www.bio.bg.ac.rs/eds/AES/Vol9-10/03.pdf. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ↑ "Bug Wood". Wiki.bugwood.org. 2011-02-28. http://wiki.bugwood.org/Archive:Tortricids/Carposina_scirrhosella. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
Wikidata ☰ Q968981 entry
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