''Grapholita funebrana'', the plum fruit moth or red plum maggot, is a

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 o ...

of the family

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. It is found in the

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. Like many of its congeners, it is sometimes placed in ''

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''. The

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is 10–15 mm. The forewings are fuscous, striated with dark fuscous. The costa is posteriorly obscurely strigulated with whitish. The angulated edge of the basal patch and the are central fascia darker, the space between them is obscurely striated with whitish irroration towards dorsum. The ocellus is obscurely whitish-irrorated, edged with leaden -metallic, and it includes two or three blackish marks. The hindwings are fuscous, darker posteriorly. bThe larva is pale reddish ; head blackish ; plate of 2 pale ochreous.Meyrick, E., 1895 ''A Handbook of British Lepidoptera'' MacMillan, Londo
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Keys and description The moth flies in two generations from late April to September. The larvae feed on ''

Prunus domestica ''Prunus domestica'', the European plum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A deciduous tree, it includes many varieties of the fruit trees known as plums in English, though not all plums belong to this species. The greenga ...

'', ''

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'' and other ''

Prunus ''Prunus'' is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes (among many others) the fruits plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds. Native to the North American temperate regions, the neotropics of South America, and the pale ...

'' species. The species is considered to be a pest.

Notes

''The flight season refers to

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and The Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.''

References

Grapholitini Moths of Asia Tortricidae of Europe Moths described in 1835 Taxa named by Georg Friedrich Treitschke {{Olethreutinae-stub