''Endothenia ericetana'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

, belonging to the family Tortricidae first described by

Henry Noel Humphreys Henry Noel Humphreys (1810–1879), Humphreys, Henry Noel, in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 28. was a British illustrator, naturalist, entomologist, and numismatist. Humphreys was born on 4 January 1810 in Birmingham, the ...

and

John O. Westwood John Obadiah Westwood (22 December 1805 – 2 January 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents. He published several illustrated works on insects and antiquities. He was among the first entomologist ...

in 1845. It is native to the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

including Europe. The wingspan is 14–20 mm. The forewings are light fuscous, sometimes obscurely darker-strigulated . The base is obscurely darker or ferruginous-tinged. There is an indistinct central fascia not reaching the dorsum, a short transverse tornal streak, and a subapical streak not reaching costa All are darker fuscous or ochreous - brown and obscure. The hindwings are rather dark grey.Meyrick, E., 1895 ''A Handbook of British Lepidoptera'' MacMillan, Londo
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Keys and description The species is found in connection with meadows, fields and farmland.The larvae feed in the stems and rootstock of woundwort '' Stachys'' and corn-mint ''

Mentha arvensis ''Mentha arvensis'', the corn mint, field mint, or wild mint, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It has a circumboreal distribution, being native to the temperate regions of Europe and western and central Asia, east to ...

''. The moths fly in July-August.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q13372257 Endotheniini Moths described in 1845