Spilonota ocellana

{{Short description|Bud moth}} {{Italic title}} {{Speciesbox | image = Spilonota ocellana.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Spilonota ocellana | authority = (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)<ref>[http://www.tortricidae.com/catalogueGenusList.asp?gcode=882 tortricidae.com]</ref> | synonyms = *''Tortrix ocellana'' [Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775 *''Spilonota ocellana centralasiae'' Obraztsov, 1949 *''Tortrix comitana'' Hubner, [1796-1799] *''Pyralis luscana'' Fabricius, 1794 *''Penthina occulana'' Harris, 1862 *''Hedya pyrifoliana'' Clemens, 1860 *''Tmetocera zellerana'' Borgmann, 1895 }}

'''''Spilonota ocellana''''', the '''bud moth''', is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm, from North Africa and Europe to Iran, eastern Russia, China (Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai), Korea, and Japan.<ref>[http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/455/45513105.pdf Catalogue of Eucosmini from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)]</ref> It is also present on Madeira and in North America.

thumb|230px|left|Museum specimen The wingspan is 12–17 mm. The forewings are whitish, sometimes partly suffused with grey, more or less strigulated with dark fuscous. The basal patch is dark grey, sometimes blackish-mixed, edge somewhat angulated and the central fascia form a dark grey sometimes indistinct costal suffusion, and there is a black-edged triangular praetornal spot. The ocellus is edged with leaden- metallic, enclosing several sometimes confluent black dashes. The cilia are dark grey. The hindwings are rather dark grey. The larva is pinkish-brown; head and plate of 2 dark fuscous: on blackthorn, larch, alder, etc.; May. The larch -feeding form distinguished as ''lariciana'' is usually somewhat smaller and darker.<ref>Meyrick, E., 1895 ''A Handbook of British Lepidoptera'' MacMillan, London [https://archive.org/details/handbookofbritis00meyr/page/n7 pdf] {{PD-notice}} Keys and description</ref>

The moth flies from May to October depending on the location. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on various deciduous trees and shrubs including ''Quercus'', ''Betula'', ''Sorbus'' and ''Vaccinium''.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons|Spilonota ocellana}} {{Wikispecies}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110212052745/http://microlepidoptera.nl/soorten/species.php?speciescode=362650&p=1 Microlepidoptera.nl {{in lang|nl}}] * [http://webh01.ua.ac.be/vve/Checklists/Lepidoptera/Tortricidae/Socellana.htm Lepidoptera of Belgium] * [http://www.ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=1205 Bud moth at UKmoths] * [http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/tortricidae.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=274 Eurasian Tortricidae]

Category:Eucosmini Category:Moths described in 1775 Category:Moths of Africa Category:Moths of Asia Category:Tortricidae of Europe Category:Moths of Japan Category:Moths of North America Category:Palearctic Lepidoptera