Biology:Gynnidomorpha alismana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Gynnidomorpha |
| Species: | G. alismana
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| Gynnidomorpha alismana | |
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Gynnidomorpha alismana, the water plantain conch, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Ragonot in 1883. It is found in most of Europe, except Spain , Switzerland , most of the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine . Further east it is found across the Palearctic to China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Jilin, Shaanxi, Yunnan) and Korea.[3] It is found in riverine and other watery habitats.
The wingspan is 11–14 mm.[4] The head is pale ochreous. Forewings with a gently arched costa .They are pale ochreous, submetallic, the margins more or less strigulated with dark fuscous > There is an ochreous-brownish basal patch, often represented by an angulated edge only.Then a slightly curved ochreous-brown median fascia, suffused with blackish below middle. There are some ochreous brownish clouds towards the tornus. An ochreous-brown fascia from costa posteriorly is obsolete before termen. The hindwings are grey, almost black. The larva is dull yellowish -pink or pinkish-brown ; head and plate of 2 black-brown :[5]
Adults are on wing from June to August.
References
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- ↑ tortricidae.com
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ A Brief Summary of Tribe Cochylini from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae)
- ↑ "microlepidoptera.nl". http://www.microlepidoptera.nl/soorten/species.php?p=1&speciescode=360920.
- ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
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