Tortricidae : Tortricinae
Falseuncaria ruficiliana
FALSEUNCARIA ruficiliana (Haworth, 1811)
Falseuncaria ruficiliana
FALSEUNCARIA ruficiliana (Haworth, 1811)
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Vernacular Name: Red-fringed Conch
Wingspan: 12-15mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Corsica,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Madeira,
Malta & Portugal) : Asia Minor east to China (newly discovered)
UK Distribution: Local throughout most of Great Britain but very local north-west England
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Heathland : Moorland : Bogs : Chalk & Limestone Grassland
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Larva in a cocoon
Observations: An easily recognised moth with its greyish white forewings and oblique cross band in reddish brown,edged with white, which starts at the dorsum at one third the forewing length finishing half way across the forewing at about half the forewing length before continuing to the costa as a suffused band. The terminal band is also the same colour and suffused from apex to tornus.
The similar species F.degreyana has a rosy red flush to the whitish-grey background with a narrower cross band.
The moth can be disturbed during the day,flies from dusk and is attracted to light.
Wingspan: 12-15mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Corsica,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Madeira,
Malta & Portugal) : Asia Minor east to China (newly discovered)
UK Distribution: Local throughout most of Great Britain but very local north-west England
UK Conservation Status -
- Local = 101 - 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Tortrix ruficiliana Haworth, 1811
- Tortrix ruficiliana Haworth, 1811
- England
Habitat: Heathland : Moorland : Bogs : Chalk & Limestone Grassland
Similar Species -
- Falseuncaria degreyana - (McLachlan, 1869)
Overwinters as: Larva in a cocoon
Observations: An easily recognised moth with its greyish white forewings and oblique cross band in reddish brown,edged with white, which starts at the dorsum at one third the forewing length finishing half way across the forewing at about half the forewing length before continuing to the costa as a suffused band. The terminal band is also the same colour and suffused from apex to tornus.
The similar species F.degreyana has a rosy red flush to the whitish-grey background with a narrower cross band.
The moth can be disturbed during the day,flies from dusk and is attracted to light.
Photo Gallery
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.
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.
- Asteraceae - Compositae - Aster-Daisy - Sunflower Family
- Aster linosyris - Goldilocks
- Aster tripolium - Sea Aster
- Bellis perennis - Common Daisy
- Solidago virgaurea - Goldenrod
- Gentianaceae - Gentian Family
- Gentiana verna - Spring Gentian
- Orabanchaceae - Broomrape Family
- Odontites vulgaris - Red Bartsia
- Pedicularis sylvatica - Lousewort
- Primulaceae - Primrose Family
- Primula farinosa - Bird's-eye Primula
- Primula veris - Cowslip
- Primula vulgaris - Primrose
- Scrophulariaceae - Figwort Family
- Antirrhinum majus - Snapdragon, Garden snapdragon
- Linaria vulgaris - Yellow/Common Toadflax
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Tortricoidea Tortricidae Tortricinae Cochylini FALSEUNCARIA Obraztsov & Swatschek 1958 Falseuncaria ruficiliana (Haworth, 1811) - Tortrix ruficiliana Haworth, 1811 - TORTRIX ruficiliana Haworth, 1811 = Phalonia = Eupoecilia subroseana = epilinana = Tinea ciliella Hübner, 1796 = Conchylis coniana Fuchs, 1903 = Conchylis tectana Fuchs, 1903 - Haworth 1811 Lepidoptera Britannica (3): Title Page : p.402 - n.24 - England |