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Tortricidae : Tortricinae

Carnation Tortrix

CACOECIMORPHA pronubana (Hübner, [1799])
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Kind permission - © Tim Norriss
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Description
  Wingspan: Male - 15 - 17mm / Female 18 - 22mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding ( Bulgaria,Croatia,Czech Rep.,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,Germany,Latvia,Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway,Poland,Slovakia,Sweden,Ukraine & Crete ) : N Africa : S Africa : Asia Minor : N America
UK Distribution: Common throughout much of Great Britain and southern Ireland
UK Conservation Status -
  • Common = > 300 10km squares
European Conservation Status -
  • Least Concern
Original Species Name -
  • Tortrix pronubana Hübner, 1799
Type Species - Cacoecimorpha
  • Tortrix pronubana Hübner, 1799
Type Locality -
  • Europe
Flight Period: Recorded all year round - minimum two generations
Habitat: Gardens : Hedgerows : Woodland
Similar Species -
  • None
Larva: The final instar in dull green dorsally and lighter green underneath with a darker dorsal line,white pinacula and short stiff white setae. Head is light brown as is the prothoracic plate with black blotch rearwards. Larvae are polyphageous,feeding on a wide host plant database,living in a spun or rolled leaf.
Overwinters as: Adult/larva
Observations: Moth was first recorded in Bognor back in 1905 possibly through accidental introduction in garden plants.
The male forewing is dark brown with darker net like patterning on the outer part of the wing with dark brown,reddish brown markings and an oblique median cross band in the same dark brown colour.
The female is larger,with lighter coloured forewing which comes to a point at the apex. There is a darker orange brown median cross band edged on the basal side and orangey brown net like patterning twards the basal and terminal areas.
Hindwings are bright orange making it easy to spot during daytime flights.

Moth is attracted to light.
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Larval Food Plants Worldwide
Note - Plants hyperlinked in red below take the visitor to the relevant plant page on"Plants for a Future" website where further information like photos,physical characteristics,habitats,edible uses,medicinal uses,cultivation,propagation,range,height etc. are clearly listed.
Plant Families - in bold red below takes the visitor to the relevant "Lepi-plants" page where other butterflies & moths using the plants below are listed.
Larval Food Plants
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Type Locality:
Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
Hexapoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricoidea
Tortricidae
Tortricinae
Archipini
CACOECIMORPHA Obraztsov 1954
Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Hübner, [1799])
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Tortrix pronubana Hübner, 1799
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TORTRIX pronubana (Hübner, [1799])
= ambustana (Frölich, 1830)
= hermineana (Duponchel, 1835)
= insolatana (Lucas, 1848)
= perochreana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1856)
= Cacoecimorpha pronuba
= Cacoecia ambustana Hübner, 1830
= Cacoecia hermineana Duponchel, 1834
= Cacoecia insolatana Lucas, 1848
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Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge / errichtet von Jacob Hübner in Augsburg. By Hübner, Jacob, 1761-1826 Lepidoptera V11 : Tortrices 1V : pl. 19 - f. 121
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Europe