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Common Tortrix
Capua vulgana
Capua vulgana is a moth of the family Tortricidae found in Asia and Europe. It was first described by the German entomologist Josef Aloys Frölich in 1828.
From the article Capua vulgana on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The wingspan of Capua vulgana can reach 13–19 mm. These broad-winged Tortrix moths have a buff-coloured head and pale brown forewings with dark brown markings. Males are more well-marked than the females.
Range & habitat
This species can be found from Ireland and Great Britain, east through the Benelux, Fennoscandia and central and south-eastern Europe to Siberia and Sakhalin to the Kuriles. It is also found in China (Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Sichuan, Shandong) and Taiwan.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 320276.