__NOTOC__ ''Celypha aurofasciana'' is a small

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of the

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Tortricidae The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, in the order Lepidoptera. This large family has over 11,000 species described, and is the sole member of the superfamily Tortricoidea, although the genu ...

. It is native to

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and the

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but occurs in some other places as an

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. Its

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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 Adults are on wing from June to July. to eat rotting wood.

Synonyms

Obsolete names (

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s and others) of this species are: * ''Celypha paleana'' Caradja, 1916 * ''Cymolomia latifasciana'' (Haworth, 1811) * ''Grapholitha dormoyana'' Duponchel in Godart, 1835 * ''Loxoterma latifasciana'' var. ''paleana'' Caradja, 1916 * ''Olethreutes aurofascianus'' (''

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'') * ''Tortrix aurofasciana'' Haworth, 1811 * ''Tortrix latifasciana'' Haworth, 1811 ''Tortrix latifasciana'' here refers to the species named by Haworth in ''Transactions of the

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'' in 1811. In the same year, he used the same name for '' Acleris laterana'' in ''Lepidoptera Britannica''. * ''Tortrix venustana'' Frölich, 1828

Footnotes

References

* (2009)
Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae
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Version 1.3.1. Retrieved 2010-APR-19. * (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars" ''Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins'' 27: 105-109

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* (2005): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash

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