Rhopobota naevana (Hübner, 1817)

Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Catalogue of Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4757 (1), pp. 1-95 : 55

304. Rhopobota naevana (Hübner, 1817)

Tortrix unipunctana Haworth, 1811 ; Lepid. Br. (3): 454.

= Tortrix naevana Hübner , [1814‒1817]; Samml. Eur. Schmett. 7: pl. 41, fig. 261.

TL: Great Britain ( unipunctana ); Europe ( naevana ).

Distribution: India (Jammu & Kashmir); North America ( USA); China ( Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu); Europe; Japan; Korea; Russia (Siberia); Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand ( Byun et al. 1998; Zhang & Li 2005; Razowski 2003, 2006; Koçak & Kemal 2012).

Hosts: The reported host plants include Fraxinus mandshurica , F. rhynchophylla (Oleaceae) , Vaccinium vitisidaea (Ericaceae) , Malus spectabilis , M. mandshurica , Pyrus serotina , P. ussuriensis , Crataegus pinnatifida , Armeniaca vulgaris , Prunus mume , Sorbus sp., Padus asiatica (Rosaceae) , Rhamnus davurica (Rhamnaceae) , Ilex integra , I. crenata (Aquifoliceae) , and Syringa amurensis (Oleaceae) ( Kuznetzov 2001; Liu & Li 2002).

Illustrations: Adult and genitalia ( Byun et al. 1998: 221, 261, 295; Razowski 2003: pl. 17, 67, VI; Ganai & Khan 2017: 688).

Comment: This species was long recognized as R. naevana , but that name is now recognized as a synonym of R. unipuntana , the latter of which has priority.