Black-lyre leafroller moth | |
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Adult in Papanui, New Zealand | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tortricidae |
Genus: | Cnephasia |
Species: | C. jactatana
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Binomial name | |
Cnephasia jactatana
Walker, 1863
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Synonyms | |
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The black-lyre leafroller moth ("Cnephasia" jactatana) is a tortrix moth species of the family Tortricidae.
The black-lyre leafroller moth is endemic to New Zealand and is common throughout the country. [1]
It belongs to the subfamily Tortricinae and therein to tribe Cnephasiini. But among these, it is in fact not close enough to the type species of Cnephasia – Cnephasia pasiuana of Europe – to properly belong in that genus. Alternatively, it has variously been referred to Batodes (= Ditula) or Paedisca (= Epinotia); if anything it might belong to the latter, presently circumscribed as a large and wide-ranging group of uncertain monophyly. But its actual genus has yet to be determined with certainty. [2]
Junior synonyms of this species are: [2]
The eggs are laid on the topside of the leaf. [3] The larvae of this species can commonly be found on the hounds tongue fern in a silken tube, feeding on the leaves of that fern. [4] They prefer older leaves. [3]
The species is primarily known as a pest of kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa), but the caterpillars feed on various other trees with fleshy fruit, such as Citrus, hawthorns (Crataegus), persimmons and ebonies (Diospyros), gum trees ( Eucalyptus), fuchsias (Fuchsia) and grapevines (Vitis). They primarily feed on the leaves, but can also damage the husk and fruit body. [5]
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Black-lyre leafroller moth | |
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Adult in Papanui, New Zealand | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tortricidae |
Genus: | Cnephasia |
Species: | C. jactatana
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Binomial name | |
Cnephasia jactatana
Walker, 1863
| |
Synonyms | |
See text |
The black-lyre leafroller moth ("Cnephasia" jactatana) is a tortrix moth species of the family Tortricidae.
The black-lyre leafroller moth is endemic to New Zealand and is common throughout the country. [1]
It belongs to the subfamily Tortricinae and therein to tribe Cnephasiini. But among these, it is in fact not close enough to the type species of Cnephasia – Cnephasia pasiuana of Europe – to properly belong in that genus. Alternatively, it has variously been referred to Batodes (= Ditula) or Paedisca (= Epinotia); if anything it might belong to the latter, presently circumscribed as a large and wide-ranging group of uncertain monophyly. But its actual genus has yet to be determined with certainty. [2]
Junior synonyms of this species are: [2]
The eggs are laid on the topside of the leaf. [3] The larvae of this species can commonly be found on the hounds tongue fern in a silken tube, feeding on the leaves of that fern. [4] They prefer older leaves. [3]
The species is primarily known as a pest of kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa), but the caterpillars feed on various other trees with fleshy fruit, such as Citrus, hawthorns (Crataegus), persimmons and ebonies (Diospyros), gum trees ( Eucalyptus), fuchsias (Fuchsia) and grapevines (Vitis). They primarily feed on the leaves, but can also damage the husk and fruit body. [5]
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