Epiblema foenella, the white-foot bell, is a moth of the family Tortricidae.
Description The wingspan is 17–26 mm. This quite-common moth has dark brown forewings with a striking falcate medio-dorsal white marking and a gray-colored area at the ends of the wings. The shape of the white marking is quite variable.
This species has one generation and the mature caterpillars overwinter. The larvae feed on the roots and lower stem of mugwort or common wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris), of southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum) and of golden marguerite (Anthemis tinctoria). The moth flies from May to August depending on the location. They usually fly from late afternoon into the evening.Microlepidoptera.ne UKMothsHants MothsLepiforum.de
Distribution This species can be found in most of Europe, southern Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, the Russian Far East, China (Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang),Catalogue of Eucosmini from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Korea, Japan, India, Taiwan and Vietnam., 2010: Clepsis trifasciata sp. n. with notes on some Lepidoptera Tortricidae from Kirgizstan. Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research Serie II 42 (1): 1-10. Abstract and full article: Fauna Europaea
Habitat The white-foot bell prefers rough uncultivated ground, grassland, scrub, river banks and coastal cliffs.Norfolk Moths
Synonyms
Ephippiphora faeneana Guenee, 1845 Epiblema accentana Caradja, 1916 Epiblema acclivilla Uffeln, 1912 Epiblema albrechtella Meyer, 1911 Epiblema circumflexa Caradja, 1916 Epiblema confluens Wörz, 1953 Epiblema divisa Wörz, 1953 Epiblema effusana Uffeln, 1912 Epiblema focnella Escherich, 1931 Epiblema foenella ab. accentana Caradja, 1916 Epiblema foenella ab. albrechtella Meyer, 1911 Epiblema foenella ab. circumflexana Caradja, 1916 Epiblema foenella ab. separana Krulikowsky, 1908 Epiblema foenella f. acclivella Uffeln, 1912 Epiblema foenella f. confluens Wrz, 1953 Epiblema foenella f. divisa Wrz, 1953 Epiblema foenella f. effusana Uffeln, 1912 Epiblema foenella f. fracta Popescu-Gorj, 1965 Epiblema foenella f. fuscata Wrz, 1953 Epiblema foenella f. interrupta Wurz, 1953 Epiblema foenella f. trapezoidalis Popescu-Gorj, 1965 Epiblema foenella f. unicolor Uffeln, 1912 Epiblema fracta Popescu-Gorj, 1965 Epiblema fuscata Wörz, 1953 Epiblema interrupta Wörz, 1953 Epiblema separana Krulikovski, 1905 Epiblema trapezoidalis Popescu-Gorj, 1965 Epiblema unicolor Uffeln, 1912 Epiblema unicolorana Klemensiewicz, 1906 Grapholita clavigerana Walker, 1863 Grapholitha foenella ab. unicolorana Klemensiewicz, 1900 Paedisca foeneana Treitschke, 1830 Phalaena (Tinea) foenella Linnaeus, 1758 Phalaena (Tortrix) tibialana Hubner, 1793 Phalaena fonella Zeller, 1853 Phalaena hochenwartiana Scopoli, 1772 Phalaena interrogationana Donovan, Pyralis pflugiana Fabricius, 1787 Sciaphila sinicana Walker, 1863 Tortrix foenana Haworth, Tortrix scopoliana [Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775 Tortrix tibialana Hübner , 1796
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