Euryeulia biocellata

Euryeulia biocellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Euryeulia
Species: E. biocellata
Binomial name
Euryeulia biocellata
(Walsingham, 1914)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tortrix biocellata Walsingham, 1914
  • Eulia biocellata

Euryeulia biocellata is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found at altitudes of 1,290 to 1,850 meters in the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico. The habitat consists of pine-oak forests.

The length of the forewings is 5.9-7.2 mm for males and 8 mm for females. The ground colour of the forewings is grey, with transverse, grey-brown lines, bordered by pale yellow. Adults have been recorded on wing from August to September.[2]

References

  1. tortricidae.com
  2. Brown, John W., 2003: Three new genera, two new species, and some rectifications in Neotropical Euliini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105 (3): 630-640.
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