''Epinotia nemorivaga'', the bearberry bell, is a species of
moth in the family
Tortricidae. It is found in Europe (from
Fennoscandia
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and northern
Russia to the
Iberian Peninsula and
Italy, and from
Ireland to
Poland) and Asia (
China
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:
Henan,
Sichuan,
Guizhou,
Shaanxi).
The
wingspan is 10–12 mm. The face and palpi are pale brownish. The forewings are silvery- whitish, finely strigulated with fuscous. The costa is posteriorly strigulated with dark fuscous and white. There are some scattered dark fuscous strigulae . The basal patch with edge somewhat bent, the central fascia with posterior median projection, and an irregular spot touching termen in middle are all dark fuscous. The termen is hardly sinuate.The cilia have a white subapical dash. The hindwings are grey.The larva is pale yellowish ; head dark brown :
Adults are on wing in June and July in western Europe.
The larvae feed on ''
Arctostaphylos alpinus
''Arctous alpina'' (syn. ''Arctostaphylos alpina''), the alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry or black bearberry, is a dwarf shrub in the heather family Ericaceae. The basionym of this species is ''Arbutus alpina'' .
Description
''Arctous alpin ...
'' and ''
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi''. The larvae
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a corridor. Later, the larva leaves the corridor and starts making a large full-depth blotch. The larva leaves the blotch and moves to a new leaf, connecting both leaves with silk. The larvae are a dull grey-green color with a shining black head. They can be found from September to May.
References
Moths described in 1848
Eucosmini
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