''Capua vulgana'' is a
moth of the family
Tortricidae found in Asia and Europe. It was
first described by the German
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
Josef Aloys Frölich
Josef Aloys Frölich or Alois von Frölich (10 March 1766, Marktoberdorf – 11 March 1841) was a German Physician, doctor, botanist and entomologist. He is not to be confused with Franz Anton Gottfried Frölich (1805–1878), his son, also an ...
in 1828.
Distribution
This species can be found from
Ireland and
Great Britain, east through the
Benelux,
Fennoscandia
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and central and south-eastern Europe to
Siberia and
Sakhalin to the
Kuriles. It is also found in
China
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(
Heilongjiang,
Inner Mongolia,
Jilin,
Sichuan,
Shandong
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Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
) and
Taiwan.
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Habitat
These rather common moths mainly inhabit in woodlands, in open scrubs and in deciduous forests.
Description
The wingspan of ''Capua vulgana'' can reach 13–19 mm. These broad-winged Tortrix moths have a buff-coloured head and pale brown forewings with dark brown markings. Males are more well-marked than the females.[
]
Biology
It is a univoltine species. Adults are on wing from May to June and can be found flying at dusk. The larvae feed on the leaves of a wide range of woodland trees and plants, including alder ('' Alnus glutinosa''), hazel ('' Corylus avellana''), rowan (''Sorbus aucuparia
''Sorbus aucuparia'', commonly called rowan (UK: /ˈrəʊən/, US: /ˈroʊən/) and mountain-ash, is a species of deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family. It is a highly variable species, and botanists have used different Circumscription (taxo ...
''), pedunculate oak ('' Quercus robur'') and bilberry (''Vaccinium myrtillus
''Vaccinium myrtillus'' or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry. It is more precisely called common bilberry or blue whortle ...
'').[Commanster]
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References
External links
Lepiforum
Nature Spot
vulgana
Moths described in 1828
Moths of Asia
Tortricidae of Europe
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