Acleris maccana

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Acleris maccana
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Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 6
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Acleris
Species:
A. maccana
Binomial name
Acleris maccana
(Treitschke, 1835)
Synonyms
  • Teras maccanaTreitschke, 1835
  • Teras basalticolaStaudinger, 1857
  • Peronea maccana f. canescanaSheldon, 1930
  • Teras fishianaFernald, 1882
  • Teras leporinanaZetterstedt, 1839
  • Peronea marmoranaCurtis, 1834
  • Spilonota marmorana (Curtis, 1834)
  • Tortrix repandanaWerneburg, 1864
  • Peronea maccana f. suffusanaSheldon, 1930
  • Teras torquanaZetterstedt, 1839

Acleris maccana, the marbled dog's-tooth tortrix, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. The species was first described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1835. It is found from Europe, east across the boreal regions to Siberia. In North America it occurs across much of the boreal forest region, south in the mountains in the east.

The wingspan is 19–25 mm. Adults are on wing in late fall and again in early spring. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on deciduous trees and shrubs, including Myrica (including Myrica gale ), Vaccinium (including Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium uliginosum ), Rhododendron , Malus , Betula , Salix and Populus species. They live between leaves spun together with silk.


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