Rhyacionia buoliana (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) Species
Last modified: Dec. 4, 2024, 2:05 p.m.
A fairly common species in the northern part of Belgium, elsewhere rather rare.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Tortricidae > Subfamily: Olethreutinae > Tribus: Eucosmini > Genus: Rhyacionia > Species: Rhyacionia buoliana
- Vernacular names
- Gewone dennenlotboorder (NL), Pine Shoot Moth, Pine Shoot (EN), Kiefern-Knospentriebwickler (DE)
- Synonyms
- Rhyacionia gemmana (Hübner, 1819)
- 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 21.
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Wingspan 16–24 mm. Forewings are reddish-orange with silvery transverse lines. It shows a large and triangular pre-tornal marking, often forming a continuous band across the forewing. Almost never a white pattern in the external area of wing. Hind wings are strikingly dark. Colors more intense, whites more washed out.
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
Egg
The eggs are yellowish-white when oviposited, changing in colour to greyish-yellow shortly after hatching and finally becoming orange-brown.
Caterpillar
There are six larval stages and the fully grown larvae can be as long as 2 cm. Light to dark brown body with black head and prothoracic plate, black thoracic legs.
Cocoon/pupa
When first formed, the pupa is yellow-brown and is about 10 mm long, later during pupal development it become black in the thoracic region.
Bionomics
The larva lives in a developing bud of the food plant. It hibernatesas a partly developed larva. Pupation in a silken cocoon in the feeding place.
The adults are active at dusk and later come to light.
Flight periods
The adults fly from late May till the end of August.
Observed on
- Host plant (genera):
- Pinus
The larva lives in a developing bud of Pinus sylvestris, Pinus nigra, Pinus contorta and Pinus sp. Young trees are favoured.
Habitat
It inhabits pine forest, plantations, sandy areas with scattered pines and heathlands.
