| Epiblema costipunctana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Epiblema |
| Species: | E. costipunctana |
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| Epiblema costipunctana (Haworth, 1811) | |
Epiblema costipunctana is a species of moth belonging to the family Tortricidae. [1] It is native to Europe. [1]
The wingspan is 13-18mm.The forewings are fuscous, sometimes ochreous- tinged, irregularly marked with black. The costa is strigulated with black and white. Three streaks from costa and the margins of ocellus are leaden - metallic. The sharply angulated edge of basal patch and the central fascia are darker and separated by a somewhat pentagonal white dorsal blotch more or less strigulated with blackish. There is a suffused blackish spot before apex. The hindwings are fuscous, in male basally whitish, with terminal and broader dorsal blackish fascia, in female posteriorly darker fuscous. The larva is pinkish-white, sharply ringed with white; spots red; head brown; plate of 2 whitish or grey, posterior edge blackish. [2]
The moths fly from May to July and again from late July to September. The larvae feed on Senecio jacobaea .
