Pseudohermenias abietana

Pseudohermenias abietana
Pseudohermenias abietana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Pseudohermenias
Species: P. abietana
Binomial name
Pseudohermenias abietana
(Fabricius, 1787)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pyralis abietana Fabricius, 1787
  • Tortrix hercyniana Bechstein & Scharfenberg, 1804
  • Pseudohermenias hercyniana
  • Olethreutes hercyniana
  • Phalaena clausthaliana Saxesen, in Ratzeburg, 1840
  • Argyroploce clausthaliana
  • Esia clausthaliana
  • Tortrix (Tortrix) schmidtiana Herrich-Schaffer, 1851

Pseudohermenias abietana is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Sardinia and Italy and from France to Romania.

Larva

The wingspan is 14-18 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from May to July in one generation per year.[3]

The larvae feed on Abies alba and Picea abies species. They mine the needles of their host plant. Current years needles are mined out from a silken tube attached to a twig. Most frass is ejected into the tube. Older larvae vacate the mine and live freely, feeding among spun needles.[4] The larvae are brownish with a shining black head. The species overwinters in the larval stage.

References

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ microlepidoptera.nl
  3. ^ Bug Wood
  4. ^ bladmineerders.nl
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