''Grapholita internana'' is a
moth of the
family Tortricidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the
Balkan Peninsula
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and
Fennoscandia
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.
The
wingspan is 9–10 mm.The forewings are dark fuscous . The costa has eight rather long white strigulae, some ending in violet-silvery metallic marks. There is a narrow curved whitish median dorsal blotch, with dark fuscous lighter basally. A central line. The ocellus is represented by a violet-silvery-metallic transverse mark. The hindwings in the male are white, the apex narrowly dark fuscous ; in the female they are dark fuscous, paler basally.
Adults are on wing from April to June.
UKmoths
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The larvae feed on the seeds within seedpods of '' Ulex europaeus''.
References
Grapholitini
Moths described in 1845
Moths of Europe
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