Species Cnephasia stephensiana - Gray Tortrix - Hodges#3567.1

3567.1

Tobacco Leaf Worm (larva)

Cnephasia stephensiana (Doubleday, 1849)

Sciaphila stephensiana Doubleday, 1849

Named in honor of entomologist James Francis Stephens (1792-1852).

Wingspan 18-23 mm.

Larva body length 15-18 mm.

Adult - forewing costal margin slightly arced, apex rounded; ground color grayish-white diffusely speckled with gray; markings brownish-gray irregularly edged and speckled with black; AM line a broad band, not extending to inner margin; median band complete, with proximal edge irregularly toothed, strongly edged with black, and distal edge diffuse, deeply excavated above and below middle; costal and terminal markings diffuse and obscure; hindwing brownish-gray.

Larva - head variable, light brown marked with dark brown, or entirely brownish-black or black; prothoracic plate black, edged anteriorly with gray, a whitish narrow medial sulcus; abdomen shining gray or bluish-gray, variable and sometimes darker or lighter, or with a slight greenish tinge; anal plate blackish-brown; anal comb absent; thoracic legs black.

Native to Eurasia; first recorded in North America in Canada by Mutuura in 1982.

Larvae feed on a wide variety of plants: more than 120 species have been recorded in Eurasia.

Mutuura, A. 1982. Cnephasia stephensiana, a species newly recorded from Canada and compared with the previously recorded C. interjectana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

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