Rosy Cloaked Shoot

Gypsonoma aceriana, the poplar shoot-borer, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found from Europe to Russia, eastern Turkey and Iraq. It is also present in North Africa.

The wingspan is 13–15 mm. The face is whitish-fuscous. The forewings are ochreous-whitish, more or less sprinkled and posteriorly suffused with pale brownish< The costa is obscurely strigulated with blackish. The basal patch is fuscous marked with blackish, its edge obtusely or hardly angulated, The central fascia is fuscous, ill-defined, more or less interrupted near dorsum and with small blackish mark in the disc. There are some dots round the ocellus, an irregular spot touching the middle of the termen, and a blackish small apical spot. The hindwings are grey. The larva is dull brownish; head reddish-brown; plate of 2 black