Spilonota ocellana

Spilonota ocellana, the bud moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm, from North Africa and Europe to Iran, eastern Russia, China (Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai), Korea, and Japan.[2] It is also present on Madeira and in North America.

Museum specimen

Spilonota ocellana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tortricidae
Genus:	Spilonota
Species:	S. ocellana
Binomial name
Spilonota ocellana (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
Tortrix ocellana [Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775 Spilonota ocellana centralasiae Obraztsov, 1949 Tortrix comitana Hubner, [1796-1799] Pyralis luscana Fabricius, 1794 Penthina occulana Harris, 1862 Hedya pyrifoliana Clemens, 1860 Tmetocera zellerana Borgmann, 1895

The wingspan is 12–17 mm. The forewings are whitish, sometimes partly suffused with grey, more or less strigulated with dark fuscous. The basal patch is dark grey, sometimes blackish-mixed, edge somewhat angulated and the central fascia form a dark grey sometimes indistinct costal suffusion, and there is a black-edged triangular praetornal spot. The ocellus is edged with leaden- metallic, enclosing several sometimes confluent black dashes. The cilia are dark grey. The hindwings are rather dark grey. The larva is pinkish-brown; head and plate of 2 dark fuscous: on blackthorn, larch, alder, etc.; May. The larch -feeding form distinguished as lariciana is usually somewhat smaller and darker.[3]

The moth flies from May to October depending on the location. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on various deciduous trees and shrubs including Quercus, Betula, Sorbus and Vaccinium.