Ottawa (Dunrobin), ON Canada

9 June 2005   8:36PM EST  (left and right)
Both photos are of the same specimen.

Cydia fletcherana is one of 13 species of Cydia recorded from the Ottawa area (J. D. Lafontaine, pers. comm., 2001).  My initial identification of Cydia fletcherana was based on Internet resources.  My thanks to Dr. Jean-François Landry of Agriculture Canada for confirming the identity of the specimen illustrated 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).

The basal half of the forewing of Cydia fletcherana is dirty yellowish white in color, with a few scattered patches of dark scales.  The outer half of the forewing is mottled blackish and steel-blue, with some brown and whitish scales.  Forbes (1923) indicates a wingspan of 13 mm.

Forbes (1923) gives no information as to larval host plant, but notes that the adult Cydia fletcherana flies in June.

My only record to date for Cydia fletcherana (each date representing "the night of") is in the table below: