Epinotia nemorivaga

Epinotia nemorivaga, the bearberry bell, is a species of moth in the family Tortricidae. It is found in Europe (from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Iberian Peninsula and Italy, and from Ireland to Poland)[2] and Asia (China: Henan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi).[3]

Epinotia nemorivaga
in Kennel Die palaearktischen tortriciden figure 59
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tortricidae
Genus:	Epinotia
Species:	E. nemorivaga
Binomial name
Epinotia nemorivaga (Tengstrom, 1848)[1]
Synonyms
Coccyx nemorivaga Tengstrom, 1848 Grapholitha (Paedisca) finimitana Lederer, 1859 Coccyx finitimana Doubleday, 1859 Coccyx finitimana Stephens, 1852 Coccyx nemorivagana Jones, 1884 rhododendrana Herrich-Schaffer, 1847 Tortrix (Steganoptycha) rhododendrana Herrich-Schaffer, 1851 Epinotia rhododendronana Hartig, 1960

The wingspan is 10–12 mm.[4] The face and palpi are pale brownish. The forewings are silvery- whitish, finely strigulated with fuscous. The costa is posteriorly strigulated with dark fuscous and white. There are some scattered dark fuscous strigulae . The basal patch with edge somewhat bent, the central fascia with posterior median projection, and an irregular spot touching termen in middle are all dark fuscous. The termen is hardly sinuate. The cilia have a white subapical dash. The hindwings are grey.The larva is pale yellowish; head dark brown :[5]

Adults are on wing in June and July in western Europe.[6]

The larvae feed on Arctostaphylos alpinus and Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. The larvae mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a corridor. Later, the larva leaves the corridor and starts making a large full-depth blotch. The larva leaves the blotch and moves to a new leaf, connecting both leaves with silk. The larvae are a dull grey-green color with a shining black head. They can be found from September to May.[7]