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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Tortricini » Acleris » Viburnum Acleris - Hodges#3527 (Acleris viburnana)

Species Acleris viburnana - Viburnum Acleris - Hodges#3527

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Tortricidae: Acleris Maybe - Acleris viburnana

Tortricidae, dorsal - Acleris viburnana - female

Tortricidae, lateral - Acleris viburnana - female

Viburnum Acleris Moth - Hodges#3527 - Acleris viburnana

Viburnum Acleris Moth - Acleris viburnana

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Tortricoidea (Tortricid Moths)

Family Tortricidae (Tortricid Moths)

Subfamily Tortricinae

Tribe Tortricini

Genus Acleris

Species viburnana (Viburnum Acleris - Hodges#3527)

Hodges Number

3527

Other Common Names

Viburnum Button

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acleris viburnana (Clemens, 1860)

Peronea virburnana Clemens, 1860(1)

Previously considered synonym of the Palearctic Acleris schalleriana (Linnaeus, 1761)(2)

Size

Wingspan 15-20 mm.

Identification

Moderately rough-scaled anterior margin of the forewing and enlarged costal blotch, which extends to near the apex.

Genitalia:

Food

Feeds on Viburnum

Life Cycle

1. Caterpillar. 2. Pupa. 3. Adult

Remarks

It twists a leaf to form a pocket and feeds inside.

See Also

Acleris macdunnoughi

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

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Tortricidae food plants

Works Cited

1.	Contributions to American lepidopterology - No. 6. Brackenridge Clemens. 1860. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 345-362.

2.	Immigrant Tortricidae: Holarctic versus Introduced Species in North America Gilligan, T.M., J.W. Brown, J, Baixeras. 2020. Insects, 11(9), 594: 1-59.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Tim Loh on 15 February, 2009 - 7:21pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Beatriz Moisset, Tony-2, Jay Greenberg, Nick Block, Terry Harrison, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin, Blocky, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 11 October, 2023 - 3:04pm

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