''Grapholita funebrana'', the plum fruit moth or red plum maggot, is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm. Like many of its congeners, it is sometimes placed in '' Cydia''. The

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is 10–15 mm. The forewings are fuscous, striated with dark fuscous. The costa is posteriorly obscurely strigulated with whitish. The angulated edge of the basal patch and the central fascia are darker, the space between them is obscurely striated with whitish irroration towards dorsum. The ocellus is obscurely whitish-irrorated, edged with leaden -metallic, and it includes two or three blackish marks. The hindwings are fuscous, darker posteriorly. bThe larva is pale reddish; head blackish; plate of 2 pale ochreous.Meyrick, E., 1895 ''A Handbook of British Lepidoptera'' MacMillan, Londo
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Keys and description The moth flies in two generations from late April to September. The larvae feed on '' Prunus domestica'', '' Prunus spinosa'' and other ''

Prunus ''Prunus'' is a genus of flowering plant, flowering trees and shrubs from the family (biology), family Rosaceae. The genus includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively Drupe, stonefruit). The genus has a cosm ...

'' species. The species is considered to be a pest.

Notes

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and

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. This may vary in other parts of the range.''

References

Grapholitini Moths of Asia Tortricidae of Europe Moths described in 1835 Taxa named by Georg Friedrich Treitschke {{Olethreutinae-stub