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| Species: | A. arbutella
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| Argyroploce arbutella (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Argyroploce arbutella is a moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in most of Europe, from Fenniscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Sardinia, Italy and Bulgaria and from Ireland to [[Poland and Romania.[1]
The wingspan is 13–15 mm.[2] Adults are purplish-red with silvery striations. They are on wing from May to June.[3]
The larvae feed on Arctostaphylos uva-ursi and Vaccinium vitis-idaea. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a full depth irregular blotch mine. They only live as a leaf miner for a short period of time before leaving the mine to live freely among spun leaves.[4] At this point they feed from within spun terminal shoots of their host plant. Larvae can be found from April to May.