Grapholita funebrana

Grapholita funebrana, the plum fruit moth or red plum maggot, is a moth of the family Tortricidae.[1][2][3] It is found in the Palearctic realm.[3][4] Like many of its congeners, it is sometimes placed in Cydia.[3]

Grapholita funebrana
Grapholita funebrana, Sontley, North Wales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Grapholita
Species:
G. funebrana
Binomial name
Grapholita funebrana
Synonyms
  • Cydia funebrana (Treitschke, 1835)
  • Grapholita (Aspila) funebrana Treitschke, 1835
  • Laspeyresia cerasana Kozhantshikov, 1953

The wingspan is 10–15 mm.[2] The forewings are fuscous, striated with dark fuscous. The costa is posteriorly obscurely strigulated with whitish. The angulated edge of the basal patch and the central fascia are darker, the space between them is obscurely striated with whitish irroration towards dorsum. The ocellus is obscurely whitish-irrorated, edged with leaden -metallic, and it includes two or three blackish marks. The hindwings are fuscous, darker posteriorly. bThe larva is pale reddish ; head blackish ; plate of 2 pale ochreous.[5]

The moth flies in two generations from late April to September.a

The larvae feed on Prunus domestica, Prunus spinosa and other Prunus species. The species is considered to be a pest.[3]

Notes

^a The flight season refers to Belgium and The Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.

References
  1. "Grapholita (Aspila) funebrana Treitschke, 1835". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea Secretariat, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  2. "Plum Fruit Moth Grapholita funebrana". UKMoths. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  3. Todd M. Gilligan & Marc E. Epstein (August 2014). "Grapholita funebrana". Tortricids of Agricultural Importance. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  4. "Grapholita funebrana Treitschke, 1835". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  5. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
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