Species Details

ABH: 49.3571

BF: 1248

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Olethreutinae

Taxon: Aspila molesta

=Grapholita molesta

Authority: (Busck, 1916)

Vernacular: Oriental Fruit Moth

Account: Recorded infrequently through accidental importation in fruit from Asia. This Oriental species has spread to many places across the world, where it is a pest of peach and other species of cultivated Prunus Distinguished from G. funebrana by its generally smaller size, the better defined fasciate markings and white discocellular spot of the forewing, and in the male also by the patch of pale scales along the middle of the termen of the hindwing [Bradley]. Larva feeds within fruit of Peach and Pear, no evidence of breeding in the UK.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 11 — 14 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 2 Sep (2004) — 2 Sep (2004)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant:

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Adventive

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 3 — Difficult to identify 🤔🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/grapholita-molesta/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2004

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