Archips micaceana

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Archips micaceana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Archips
Species:
A. micaceana
Binomial name
Archips micaceana
(Walker, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Cacoecia micaceanaWalker, 1863
  • Cacoecia eucrocaDiakonoff, 1958
  • Cacoecia micaceana var. obscuraDiakonoff, 1939

Archips micaceana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China, Hong Kong, southern Vietnam, Burma, and northern Thailand. It is a minor pest of many agricultural crops. [1]

The hindwings are almost entirely yellow in both sexes.

Food

The larvae are polyphagous leaf-tiers and leaf-rollers [2] on:

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References

  1. "Archips micaceana (Walker)". ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. Eurasian Tortricidae
  3. Tortricidae foodplant database