Dichrorampha plumbana | |
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Dichrorampha plumbana, Caen y coed, North Wales, May 2010 | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tortricidae |
Genus: | Dichrorampha |
Species: | D. plumbana
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Binomial name | |
Dichrorampha plumbana (Scopoli, 1763)
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Dichrorampha plumbana is a moth belonging to the family Tortricidae first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763. [1] It is native to the Palearctic including Europe. [2]
The wingspan is 11–14 mm.The forewings are dark fuscous, sharply irrorated with pale ochreous, costa obscurely spotted with dark fuscous and whitish ; anterior half obscurely striated or suffused with greyish, forming a slightly paler subtriangular median dorsal blotch ; some streaks from costa posteriorly and margins of ocellus leaden-metallic ; from three to five black dots on termen ; termen rather oblique, sinuation distinct. Hindwings fuscous or dark fuscous.The larva is yellowish- white ; head yellow -brownish ; plate of 2 ochreous. [3]
The larva develops on the roots of yarrow Achillea millefolium and Leucanthemum vulgare,. The adults fly during the day and into the evening in May–June.