Archips machlopis

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Archips machlopis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Archips
Species:
A. machlopis
Binomial name
Archips machlopis
(Meyrick, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Cacoecia machlopisMeyrick, 1912
  • Cacoecia compactaMeyrick, 1918
  • Cacoecia isocyrtaMeyrick, 1920
  • Cacoecia seminubilaMeyrick, in de Joannis, 1930
  • Cacoecia transcutataMeyrick, 1935

Archips machlopis is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is widely distributed in southern Asia (including Pakistan, Nepal, China, India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia: Sumatra, Java). [1]

The wingspan is 16–20 mm for males and 18–22 mm for females. In Malaysia, adults are on wing from July to November, in Indonesia the flight time is February and March, and from July to September.[ citation needed ]

The larvae feed on Medicago , Gloriosa superba , Cedrela toonica , Rumex , Citrus , Salix , Litchi and Camellia sinensis . [2]

References

  1. Tortricidae from Vietnam in the collection of the Berlin Museum. 5. Archipini and Sparganothini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
  2. Marcel. "Eti Bioinformatics". wbd.etibioinformatics.nl. Retrieved 10 July 2018.