Species Cenopis reticulatana - Reticulated Fruitworm - Hodges#3720

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Cenopis reticulatana (Clemens, 1860)

Croesia ? reticulatana Clemens, 1860 (1)

Specific epithet from the Latin reticulatus (made like a net), from "rete" (a net); refers to the forewings "minutely reticulated with reddish orange." (1)

Wingspan 15-17 mm. (2)

Adult: forewing yellow, covered by netlike pattern of orange lines; AM line dark brown, diagonal, thicker at costa, terminating in triangular blotch at inner margin; PM line begins with blotch at costa, then divides to form Y shape with top pointing toward inner margin; hindwing white with variable yellowish shading along outer margin. [adapted from description by Lynn Scott]

Records from much of the United States and Canada, absent from the Pacific states and much of the southwest. (3)

Univoltine on Block Island, RI, with adult records from early July to late August.(4)

Larvae are leafrollers on plants from several families. Have been recorded on alder, apple, ash, aster, birch, beech, blueberry, cherry, maple, oak, pear. (5) Also Culver's Root (Veronicastrum virginicum); Wooly Buckthorn (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii); Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa); Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)

Larva; pupa; adult

Sparganothis Fruitworm Moth (Sparganothis sulfureana) forewings form a dark thick X pattern when wings are held together at rest, and PM line does not divide into a Y shape.

Clemens, B., 1860. Contributions to American lepidopterology - No. 6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 353. (1)

Covell, p. 421, plate 59-13 (2)

Moth Photographers Group

Maryland Moths

Brackenridge Clemens (1825-1867)

Mass Moths

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