Tortricidae : Olethreutinae
Celypha rivulana
CELYPHA rivulana (Scopoli, 1763)
Celypha rivulana
CELYPHA rivulana (Scopoli, 1763)
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 -
Habitat: Damp Meadows : Marshes : Boggy Heathland : Open Woodland : Chalk/Limestone Grassland : Scrub : Sand-dunes
Similar Species -
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.
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
- Least Concern
- Phalaena rivulana (Scopoli, 1763)
- Tortrix striana Denis & Schiffermüler, 1775
- In sylvis (in the woods)
Habitat: Damp Meadows : Marshes : Boggy Heathland : Open Woodland : Chalk/Limestone Grassland : Scrub : Sand-dunes
Similar Species -
- Celypha cespitana (Hübner,[1817])
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
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.
- Convolvulaceae - Bindweed - Morning Glory Family
- Convolvulus arvensis - Field Bindweed
- Ericaceae - Heather Family
- Vaccinium myrtilus - Bilberry - Blue Whortleberry
- Vaccinium uliginosum - Bog Bilberry - Northern Bilberry
- Vaccinium myrtilus - Bilberry - Blue Whortleberry
- 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
- Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
- Filipendula ulmaria - Meadowsweet
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Tortricoidea Tortricidae Olethreutinae Olethreutini CELYPHA Hübner, 1825 Celypha rivulana (Scopoli, 1763) - Tortrix striana Denis & Schiffermüler, 1775 - PHALAENA rivulana (Scopoli, 1763) = Syricoris rivulana (Scopoli, 1763) = Olethreutes rivulanus - 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 - In sylvis (in the woods) |