TORTRICIDAE: Tortricinae
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Cnephasia jactatana (Walker, 1863). Endemic. Widespread & Abundant.
Habitat, seasonality and behaviour
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It is a moth of native forest which can be attracted to U.V. light in good numbers from November through to late summer.
Life history
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Larvae feed on a very wide range of plants, both on living and dead material, feeding from a silken spinning. They have been found on kahikatea, dead Camellia flowers, seeds of Norfolk Island hibiscus, and flax, and frond of leather-leaf fern.
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- George Vernon Hudson
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- George Vernon Hudson
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- (c) Tony Steer, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Tony Steer
- Adapted by Tony Steer from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnephasia_jactatana
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