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Aphelia paleana, the timothy tortrix , is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Europe, and across the Palearctic to China (Heilongjiang, Beijing) and the Russian Far East.[2]

Aphelia paleana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tortricidae
Genus:	Aphelia
Species:	A. paleana
Binomial name
Aphelia paleana (Hübner, 1793)[1]
Synonyms
List Phalaena (Tortrix) paleana Hubner, 1793 Aphelia (Zelotherses) paleana Tortrix flavana Hubner, [1796-1799] Tortrix icterana Frolich, 1828 Tortrix paleana var. ictericana Kennel, 1910 Tortrix intermediana Herrich-Schaffer, 1856 Tortrix palleana Treitschke, 1830 Tortrix paleana raebeli Toll, 1951 Aphelia paleana ab. stenoptera Obraztsov, 1955

The wingspan is 18–22 mm. The head and thorax are pale ferruginous. The forewings are narrowed anteriorly and whitish -ochreous or pale yellow -ochreous, sometimes greyish tinged, the base yellower. The hindwings are grey. The larva is blackish with large white spots; the head and thorax are black with white anterior edges.[3] Julius von Kennel provides a full description. [4]

The moth flies from June to August in western Europe.

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants such as Pulicaria dysenterica and wolfberry.

References

External links

• Media related to Aphelia paleana at Wikimedia Commons
• waarneming.nl (in Dutch)
• Taxonomy at Fauna Europaea
• Timothy Tortrix at UK Moths

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