Epinotia nisella
species of insect
Epinotia nisella is a moth of the family Tortricidae which is found in the Palearctic, Europe and North America. It was first described by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759.
Life cycle
The wingspan is about 12–17 mm. The forewings are grey, more or less mixed with white, slightly ferruginous-tinged, irregularly strigulated with blackish-grey. The basal patch is darker, its edge more blackish and acutely angulated in the middle. There often is a ferruginous or red-brown flattened-triangular dorsal blotch distal to this. The central fascia is slender, irregular, again somewhat darker. The edges of the ocellus, and sometimes a stria above them leaden-metallic. Sometimes the whole forewing is suffused with ferruginous except the basal and terminal patches; termen sinuate. The hindwings are light fuscous, terminally dark fuscous.
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