Pelatea klugiana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found from the Iberian Peninsula through southern France (Alpes-Maritimes), Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia (Istria), Bulgaria, Romania to Ukraine and southern Russia. In the north it is found up to Lower Austria and Carinthia.

Pelatea klugiana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Pelatea
Species:
P. klugiana
Binomial name
Pelatea klugiana
(Freyer, 1836)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tortrix klugiana Freyer, 1836
Habitat
Web
Cocoon in web

The length of the forewings is 10-10.7 mm, although adults of subspecies verucha are somewhat smaller (9.0-9.3 mm). Adults are on wing from May to June in one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Paeonia tenuifolia, Paeonia rosea, Paeonia officinalis and Paeonia biebersteiniana. They live in groups of two to seven under a web from which they feed on their host plant. Pupation takes place in the web.[2]

Subspecies

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  • Pelatea klugiana klugiana
  • Pelatea klugiana verucha Nedoshivina & Zolotuhin, 2005 (southern Russia)[2]

References

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  1. ^ tortricidae.com
  2. ^ a b Nedoshivina, Svetlana V.; Zolotuhin, Vadim V. (2005). "A new subspecies of Pelatea klugiana (Freyer, 1836) from the Middle Volga Region of Russia, with notes on its morphology and life history (Tortricidae)" (PDF). Nota Lepidopterologica. 28 (1): 3–9. Retrieved 2016-04-26.[permanent dead link]
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