Aethes cnicana ( Westwood, 1854 )

Byun, Bong-Kyu & Li, Cheng-De, 2006, Taxonomic review of the tribe Cochylini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Korea and northeast China, with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Natural History 40 (13 - 14), pp. 783-817 : 789

Aethes cnicana ( Westwood, 1854)

Argyrolepia cnicana Westwood 1854, p 280 . TL: Great Britain (Epping and Yaxley Fen). Aethes cnicana Razowski 1970, p 309 .

Diagnosis

Wingspan 15–16 mm. The species resembles A. rubigana , but differs by bright ground colour and distinctly dark median fascia in forewing. It also differs from A. rubigana by smaller size and comparatively narrow, less oblique, and usually uninterrupted median fascia of forewing.

Material examined

Three males, Mt Dodram, GG, 19 May 1990, K. T . Park, B. K. Byun ; one male, Hwengseong Dam, GW, 16 July 1994, B. K. Byun; two males, Chuncheon, GW, 22 May 1985, K. T . Park ; one female, same locality, 16 May 1990, K. T . Park ; one male, one female, Mt Samak, GW, 19 July 1989, K. T . Park, B. K. Byun ; one male, same locality, 22 May 1990, K. T . Park, B. K. Byun ; four males, five females, Sogumgang, GW, 23–24 May 1988, K. T . Park, U. Park ; two males, same locality, 6 July 1988, K. T . Park , in CIS . One female, Mt Kumgang, N Korea, 19 September 1980, L. Forro, G. Topal, in HNHM (Hungarian Natural History Museum) . One male, Mt Maoershan, HL, 1 July 1998, S. C. Yan; one male, Laoyeling, HL, early August 1995, S. C. Yan; one female, same locality, late June 1995, S. C. Yan, in NEFU .

Distribution

Korea (South, North); China: Heilongjiang (Mt Maoershan, Laoyeling), Jirin (Mt Changbaishan), Shandong (Mt Taishan); Japan (Honshu); Russia (Amur, Siberia); Mongolia; Europe (north, west, central).

Host plants

The larvae feed on Carduus sp. and Cirsium sp. ( Asteraceae ) and hibernate inside the roots ( Kawabe 1982).