''Cnephasia hellenica'' is a species of
moth of the family
Tortricidae. It is found in
Portugal,
Spain,
Italy,
Bulgaria,
Romania,
Greece,
Ukraine and the
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...
.
The
wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are brownish grey with white admixture and with an ill-defined brownish pattern. The hindwings are brownish grey, but whitish towards the base.
Adults have been recorded on wing from May to July.
References
Moths described in 1956
hellenica
''Hellenica'' ( grc, Ἑλληνικά) simply means writings on Greek (Hellenic) subjects. Several histories of 4th-century Greece, written in the mould of Thucydides or straying from it, have borne the conventional Latin title ''Hellenica''. Th ...
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
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