''Endothenia ustulana'' 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. It is native to Europe. and across 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 ...

. The wingspan is 10-12 mm. It is stocky, grey-brown moth and has no conspicuous colour shading. The forewings are grey-variegated with a blurry, bright cross-band near the wing tip. The hindwings are grey-brown. It flies in June and July and can be found in meadows and clearings in the forest during the day. The larvae feed on bugle (''

Ajuga reptans ''Ajuga reptans'' is commonly known as bugle, blue bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, carpetweed, carpet bugleweed, and common bugle, and traditionally but less commonly as St. Lawrence plant. It is an herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family Lamia ...

'') and pyramidal bugle ('' Ajuga pyramidalis''). At first they feed internally in the roots and in the following spring the later

instar An instar (, from the Latin '' īnstar'', "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (''ecdysis''), until sexual maturity is reached. Arthropods must shed the exoskeleton in order to grow or ass ...

s feed in the stalks of leaves.

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Endotheniini Moths described in 1811 Moths of Asia Moths of Europe Taxa named by Adrian Hardy Haworth {{Olethreutinae-stub