Celypha aurofasciana

Celypha aurofasciana is a small moth species of the family Tortricidae. It is native to Europe but occurs in some other places as an introduced species.

Celypha aurofasciana
Adult in Canberra (Australia)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Tribe:
Olethreutini
Genus:
Celypha
Species:
C. aurofasciana
Binomial name
Celypha aurofasciana
(Haworth, 1811)
Synonyms

Several, see text

Its wingspan is 12–14 mm. Adults are on wing from June to July.

The caterpillars feed in a silken gallery amongst mosses and liverwort on tree trunks. Recorded as food plants are mosses, but they have also been suspected[1] to eat rotting wood.

Synonyms

Obsolete names (junior synonyms and others) of this species are:[2]

  • Celypha paleana Caradja, 1916
  • Cymolomia latifasciana (Haworth, 1811)
  • Grapholitha dormoyana Duponchel in Godart, 1835
  • Loxoterma latifasciana var. paleana Caradja, 1916
  • Olethreutes aurofascianus (lapsus)
  • Tortrix aurofasciana Haworth, 1811
  • Tortrix latifasciana Haworth, 1811 [3]
  • Tortrix venustana Frölich, 1828

Footnotes
  1. Grabe (1942)
  2. Grabe (1942), Baixeras et al. (2009), and see references in Savela (2005)
  3. Tortrix latifasciana here refers to the species named by Haworth in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London in 1811. In the same year, he used the same name for Acleris laterana in Lepidoptera Britannica.

References
  • Baixeras, J.; Brown, J.W. & Gilligan, T.M. (2009): Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae – Celypha aurofasciana. Version 1.3.1. Retrieved 2010-APR-19.
  • Grabe, Albert (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen ["Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars"]. Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins 27: 105-109 [in German]. PDF fulltext
  • Savela, Markku (2005): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Celypha aurofasciana [sic]. Version of 2005-SEP-14. Retrieved 2010-APR-19.
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