Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Tortricidae > Aphelia > Aphelia viburnana

Aphelia viburnana (bilberry tortrix)

Synonyms: Tortrix viburnana

Wikipedia Abstract

Aphelia viburnana, the bilberry tortrix, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Europe, from Portugal and Great Britain to the Ural Mountains, Siberia and Mongolia, further east to the Russian Far East (Primorsk and the Kuril Islands). The length of the forewings is about 11 mm. The moth flies from June to September in western Europe. The larvae feed on Vaccinium and Ericaceae, but also Salix species.
View Wikipedia Record: Aphelia viburnana

Prey / Diet

Vaccinium myrtillus (myrtle blueberry)[1]
Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry)[1]
Wiborgiella humilis (Dyer's greenweed)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Ecology of Commanster
2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0