''Apotomops wellingtoniana'' is a species of
moth of the family
Tortricidae first described by
William D. Kearfott
William D. Kearfott (January 12, 1864 – November 12, 1917) was an American engineer and amateur entomologist. Kearfott was educated in primary schools in Richmond and Philadelphia and was connected with the Morton Poole Company and the Internati ...
in 1907. It is found in North America from
British Columbia to
Nova Scotia, south through the
Rocky Mountains to the Mexican states of
Durango
Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...
,
Nuevo Leon,
Distrito Federal and
Veracruz. In the east, it ranges south to the
Great Smoky Mountains in
Tennessee. The habitat consists of coniferous forests.
The
wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are white with gray shading on the basal half and with a dark gray band. The hindwings are light grayish brown.
The larvae feed on ''
Abies'', ''
Tsuga'' and ''
Picea
A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' (), a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth. ''Picea'' is the sole genus in the subfami ...
'' species. They are solitary defoliators.
References
Moths described in 1907
Euliini
Moths of North America
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