Ottawa (Dunrobin), ON Canada

9 May 2006   9:42PM EST  (left)
9 May 2006   10:26PM EST  (center)
31 May 2005   9:14Pm EST  (right)
The photos at left and center are of the same specimen.

Cydia albimaculana is one of 13 species of Cydia recorded from the Ottawa area (J. D. Lafontaine, pers. comm., 2001).  My initial identification of Cydia albimaculana was based on Internet resources.  My thanks to Dr. Jean-François Landry of Agriculture Canada for confirming the identity of the specimen illustrated at right above, which was given to the Canadian National Collection in Ottawa.  This specimen was also included in the All Leps Barcode of Life project of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph.  Some additional information was obtained from Internet resources and from Forbes, William T.M., The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Primitive Forms, Microlepidoptera, Pyraloids, Bombyces (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, 1923).

Cydia albimaculana has a dark brownish-gray forewing, shading to black towards the costa.  Along the costa there are several pairs of short whitish striae, some of which extend into grayish lines partly or completely crossing the wing.  At the inner margin there is a bright white rounded patch, preceded and followed by black patches. Forbes (1923) indicates a wingspan of 8 to 12 mm.

Forbes (1923) gives no information as to larval host plant, but notes that the adult Cydia albimaculana flies at the end of April.

My records to date for Cydia albimaculana (each date representing "the night of") are in the table below: