Celypha rivulana

Tortricidae : Olethreutinae

Celypha rivulana

CELYPHA rivulana (Scopoli, 1763)

Kind permission - © Tim Norriss

Life Cycle Guide

Description

Vernacular Name: Silver-striped Marble
Wingspan: 15-19mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - (excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Greece,Madeira,Malta & Ukraine)
UK Distribution: Local throughout range of habitats in Great Britain but most frequent in southern England
UK Conservation Status -

Local = 101 - 300 10km squares

European Conservation Status -

Least Concern

Original Species Name -

Phalaena rivulana (Scopoli, 1763)

Type Species - Celypha

Tortrix striana Denis & Schiffermüler, 1775

Type Locality -

In sylvis (in the woods)

Flight Period: mid June - August - univoltine
Habitat: Damp Meadows : Marshes : Boggy Heathland : Open Woodland : Chalk/Limestone Grassland : Scrub : Sand-dunes
Similar Species -

Celypha cespitana (Hübner,[1817])

Larva: Larva is polyphageous on many herbaceous plants in the flowers and on the terminal shoots, living in a spinning
Overwinters as: Ovum
Observations: The forewing is silvery white with well defined brown cross bands basally and at wing mid-point, with another blotch near the tornus and another from costa to tornus. Narrow costal stripe is intermittently white and brown.
The moth flies in sunshine and occasionally is attract to light.

Photo Gallery

Celypha rivulana - Scopoli, 1763) - Hawk Conservancy, Monxton - 12 Jul 2016 - © Tim Norriss

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.

Convolvulaceae - Bindweed - Morning Glory Family
- Convolvulus arvensis - Field Bindweed
Ericaceae - Heather Family
- Vaccinium myrtilus - Bilberry - Blue Whortleberry
- Vaccinium uliginosum - Bog Bilberry - Northern Bilberry
Rosaceae - The Rose Family
- Filipendula ulmaria - Meadowsweet
  - Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
    - Asteraceae - Compositae - Hieracium - Hawkweed
    - Caprifoliaceae - Scabiosa - Scabious
    - Fabaceae - Leguminosea - Genista - Broom/Medicago - Medick/Geum - Avens
    - Grossulariaceae - Ribes - Currants
    - Orchidinae - Orchis - Orchid
    - Rosaceae - Fragaria - Strawerry/Rubus - Raspberry etc
    - Rubiaceae - Galium - Bedstraw

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Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
Hexapoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricoidea
Tortricidae
Olethreutinae
Olethreutini
CELYPHA Hübner, 1825
Celypha rivulana (Scopoli, 1763)
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Tortrix striana Denis & Schiffermüler, 1775
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PHALAENA rivulana (Scopoli, 1763)
= Syricoris rivulana (Scopoli, 1763)
= Olethreutes rivulanus
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Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliæ indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana. - pp. [1-35], 1-420, [1]. Vindobonae. (Trattner) : Title Page : p.237 - n.600
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In sylvis (in the woods)