''Notocelia rosaecolana'' is a
moth of the family
Tortricidae. It is found in the
Palearctic realm, where it has been recorded from
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
(
Beijing,
Hebei,
Liaoning
Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...
,
Jilin,
Heilongjiang,
Fujian,
Jiangxi,
Henan,
Hubei,
Hunan,
Sichuan,
Guizhou,
Shaanxi, and
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
),
Mongolia,
Korea,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
,
Iran,
Central Asia,
Russia and
Europe.
The
wingspan is 15–20 mm. The moth closely resembles ''
Notocelia trimaculana
''Notocelia trimaculana'' is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm.
The wingspan is 15–18 mm. It differs from '' Notocelia rosaecolana'' as follows : forewings somewhat narrower, costa less arched, fold ...
'' and ''
Notocelia roborana''. The forewings are dilated, the costa is moderately and evenly arched and the fold does not reach the middle. The ground colour is white. The costa is strigulated with dark fuscous. The basal patch is dark fuscous, its edge rather rounded, followed by some grey marks towards costa and dorsum. The lower half of the central fascia is fuscous spotted with black, preceded by a grey mark. The ocellus is edged with leaden-metallic, enclosing three or four black dots. There are some brown or ferruginous and leaden-metallic streaks towards the apex. The hindwings are light grey. The larva is purplish-brown, beneath whitish ; head brown ; plate of
2 black :
[Meyrick, E., 1895 ''A Handbook of British Lepidoptera'' MacMillan, Londo]
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Keys and description
Adults are on wing from late May to August in western Europe.
The larvae feed on various roses, including ''
Rosa multiflora
''Rosa multiflora'' — ( syn. ''Rosa polyantha'') is a species of rose known commonly as multiflora rose, baby rose, Japanese rose, many-flowered rose, seven-sisters rose, Eijitsu rose and rambler rose. It is native to eastern Asia, in China, ...
'', ''
Rosa davurica'' and ''
Rosa rugosa
''Rosa rugosa'' (rugosa rose, beach rose, Japanese rose, Ramanas rose, or letchberry) is a species of rose native to eastern Asia, in northeastern China, Japan, Korea and southeastern Siberia, where it grows on beach coasts, often on sand dunes. ...
''.
References
External links
waarneming.nl
''Notocelia rosaecolana'' at UK Moths
Moths described in 1875
Eucosmini
Moths of Japan
Tortricidae of Europe
Insects of Iceland
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