Biology:Celypha aurofasciana

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Short description: Species of moth


Celypha aurofasciana
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Celypha
Species:
C. aurofasciana
Binomial name
Celypha aurofasciana
(Haworth, 1811)
Synonyms

Several, see text

Celypha aurofasciana is a small moth species of the family Tortricidae. It is native to Europe and the Palearctic but occurs in some other places as an introduced species.

Its wingspan is 12–14 mm. The face is white. The forewings are yellow, strigulated with dark fuscous and striated with leaden grey, more strongly posteriorly. The basal patch and central fascia are dark fuscous, the space between them forming a broad slightly curved pale striated fascia. There is a dark fuscous streak from the costa at 2/3 to the middle of the termen. The hindwings are dark grey. The larva is pale yellow; head black; plate of 2 reddish [1]

Adults are on wing from June to July.

The caterpillars feed in a silken gallery amongst mosses and liverwort on tree trunks. Recorded as food plants are mosses, but they have also been suspected[2] to eat rotting wood.

Synonyms

Obsolete names (junior synonyms and others) of this species are:[3]

  • Celypha paleana Caradja, 1916
  • Cymolomia latifasciana (Haworth, 1811)
  • Grapholitha dormoyana Duponchel in Godart, 1835
  • Loxoterma latifasciana var. paleana Caradja, 1916
  • Olethreutes aurofascianus (lapsus)
  • Tortrix aurofasciana Haworth, 1811
  • Tortrix latifasciana Haworth, 1811 [4]
  • Tortrix venustana Frölich, 1828

Footnotes

  1. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
  2. Grabe (1942)
  3. Grabe (1942), Baixeras et al. (2009), and see references in Savela (2005)
  4. Tortrix latifasciana here refers to the species named by Haworth in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London in 1811. In the same year, he used the same name for Acleris laterana in Lepidoptera Britannica.

References

  • Baixeras, J.; Brown, J.W. & Gilligan, T.M. (2009): Online World Catalogue of the TortricidaeCelypha aurofasciana. Version 1.3.1. Retrieved 2010-APR-19.
  • Grabe, Albert (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen ["Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars"]. Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins 27: 105-109 [in German]. PDF fulltext
  • Savela, Markku (2005): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Celypha aurofasciana [sic]. Version of 2005-SEP-14. Retrieved 2010-APR-19.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5058606 entry