Pandemis heparana (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) Species
Last modified: Nov. 8, 2023, 1:43 p.m.
A common species throughout Belgium.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Tortricidae > Subfamily: Tortricinae > Tribus: Archipini > Genus: Pandemis > Species: Pandemis heparana
- Vernacular names
- Leverkleurige bladroller (NL), Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix (EN), Obstwickler (DE)
- First mention in Belgium
- De Sélys-Longchamps E. 1844. Énumération des insectes Lépidoptères de la Belgique. — Mémoires de la Société royale des Sciences de Liége 2: 1–35. On page 20.
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Wingspan 16–24 mm. It has an angular projection of the proximal margin of the median fascia and usually a darker ground colour
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
Bionomics
The eggs are laid in batches of 30-50 on the upper leaf surface and the young caterpillars hibernate. In spring they live in a rolled leaf.
Pupation takes places in this roll or between spun leaves.
They are active in the dusk and come to light.
Flight periods
The adults fly from the end of May till late September, occasionally till well into October in two generations a year.
Observed on
- Substrates:
- Polyphagous
The polyphagous larva lives on Salix caprea, Betula, Fagus, Quercus, Tilia, Ulmus, Pirus malus, Rhamnus frangula, Sorbus torminalis, Fraxinus, Anchusa, Vaccinium myrtillus, Lysimachia and also on Malus domestica, Pyrus communis, Crataegus sp., Rosa sp., Betula pendula, Lonicera xylosteum and Ligustrum vulgare etc...
