| Epinotia tetraquetrana | |
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| Epinotia tetraquetrana, Sarnau, North Wales | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Epinotia |
| Species: | E. tetraquetrana |
| Binomial name | |
| Epinotia tetraquetrana | |
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Epinotia tetraquetrana, the square-barred bell, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found from most of Europe east to the Near East and the eastern part of the Palearctic realm. [2]
The wingspan is 12–16 mm. The forewings are fuscous, darker-strigulated, often whitish-mixed. The costa is strigulated with blackish and posteriorly with white. The edge of the basal patch is suffused with ferruginous-brown, partly blackish-marked and obtusely angulated Beyond this there is sometimes an obscure whitish subquadrate dorsal spot. The central fascia is darker, often ferruginous-suffused; costal half beyond this sometimes ferruginous suffused, with some black scales. The ocellus is obscurely edged with leaden-metallic, usually preceded by a small black subdorsal spot. The termen is sinuate. There is a white subapical dash in cilia. The hindwings are grey. The larva is pale yellowish-green; head and plate of 2 dark or light brown. [3]
Adults are on wing from April to May. [4]
The young larvae bore into the stem of Betula and Alnus species. Later, they feed within a folded leaf.
