Gynnidomorpha alismana, the water plantain conch, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Ragonot in 1883. It is found in most of Europe, except Spain, Switzerland, most of the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine. Further east it is found across the Palearctic to China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Jilin, Shaanxi, Yunnan) and Korea.[3] It is found in riverine and other watery habitats.

Water plantain conch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tortricidae
Genus:	Gynnidomorpha
Species:	G. alismana
Binomial name
Gynnidomorpha alismana (Ragonot, 1883)[1][2]
Synonyms
Conchylis alismana Ragonot, 1883

The wingspan is 11–14 mm.[4] The head is pale ochreous. Forewings with a gently arched costa .They are pale ochreous, submetallic, the margins more or less strigulated with dark fuscous > There is an ochreous-brownish basal patch, often represented by an angulated edge only.Then a slightly curved ochreous-brown median fascia, suffused with blackish below middle. There are some ochreous brownish clouds towards the tornus. An ochreous-brown fascia from costa posteriorly is obsolete before termen. The hindwings are grey, almost black. The larva is dull yellowish -pink or pinkish-brown ; head and plate of 2 black-brown :[5]

Adults are on wing from June to August.

The larvae feed on Alisma plantago-aquatica. They feed on the pith from within the flower stems.[6] The species overwinters as a full-grown larva within a grey, silken cocoon in the lower part of the stem. Pupation takes place in the stem.[7]

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