Author: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Overview:
Adult: 16-22 mm wingspan; forewing ground colour cream-white, suffused with pale ochreous or buff; basal patch large, its outer edge inward-oblique from below costa and more or less parallel with termen; median fascia poorly developed, interrupted below costa, becoming obsolete dorsally before pre-tornal marking; ocellus consisting of a pale ochreous stria marked with three or four black dots and edged with thick, submetallic plumbeous striae; subterminal fascia diffuse; apical spot inconspicuous. Hindwing light grey (male) or dark grey (female).
Larva: head and prothoracic plate blackish brown or black; abdomen reddish brown; pinacula concolorous with integument, inconspicuous; anal plate and thoracic legs dark brown.
Pupa: 8-10 mm long; reddish-brown, predisposition of wing greenish; frons protruding, without processes; tip of abdomen blunt, abdominal segment with 3 pairs of hooked setae dorsally and 2 pairs of hooked setae ventrally, ventral rim serrated, spines on anal segment only slightly bigger than those on the ninth segment. Spun up in the larval habitation [details pupa N. cynosbatella ]
Taxonomic Description:
Male:
Notocelia cynosbatella adult 1
Notocelia cynosbatella adult 2
Notocelia cynosbatella male
External characters: 16-22 mm wingspan. Forewing with a well-developed costal fold reaching to middle; hindwing with dorsal fold. Antenna weakly serrate. Labial palpus light yellow to orange-yellow. Forewing ground colour cream-white, suffused with pale ochreous or buff, the suffusion sometimes forming faint transverse striae; markings dark fuscous, coarsely strigulated with plumbeous; basal and sub-basal fasciae confluent, forming a large basal patch which extends along costa and coalesces with median fascia, its outer edge inward-oblique from below costa and more or less parallel with termen; median fascia poorly developed, interrupted below costa, becoming obsolete dorsally before pre-tornal marking; ocellus consisting of a pale ochreous, vertical post-tornal stria marked with three, sometimes four, black dots and edged with thick, submetallic plumbeous striae; subterminal fascia diffuse, arising from below middle of termen and extending obliquely inwards to costal strigulae, usually dilated in upper part of distal area; an inconspicuous, dark fuscous apical spot; cilia dark grey, cream-white at tornus, with a dark sub-basal line. Hindwing light grey; cilia paler, with dark subapical and sub-basal lines (Bradley et al., 1979).
male genitalia N. cynosbatella
Genitalia: Uncus rudimentary, gnathos not developed. Socii narrow. Valva with arcuate apical clasper; ventral margin of valva without notch before brush of cucullus. Aedeagus with group of long cornuti, and two additional fixed, short cornuti, situated terminally.
Female:
External characters: Forewing colouration and markings similar to male but hindwing dark grey.
female gen. N. cynosbatella
Genitalia: Lamella postvaginalis broad, with semi-membranous hairy lobes posteriorly. Cingulum long, cylindrical, slightly broadening anteriorly, situated caudally in ductus bursae; ductus seminalis originating from membranous part. Corpus bursae with 2 signa.
Biology:
Moths fly in May and June. Young larvae hibernate. During April and May, larvae feed in the flower buds and young shoots or between two spun leaves of the host plant. Pupation occurs in May, spun up in the larval habitation (Bradley et al., 1979; Alford, 1995).
Host plants:
Rosa spp.; occasionally also on Rubus, Pyrus, Malus, Prunus, Cydonia, Myrica, Carpinus and Quercus.
Damage:
Larvae damage cultivated roses, feeding in the flower buds and young shoots or between two spun leaves. Damage to foliage is of little consequence, but infested shoots can be distorted and flower buds destroyed (Alford, 1995).
Distribution:
Europe to Eastern Russia; Asia Minor, Iran, Mongolia.
Pheromone:
Pheromone unknown.
Attractantia:
Z 10E 12-14Ac (Witzgall et al., 1996b)
Parasitoids:
of egg:
Trichogramma sp. (Trichogrammatidae)
of larva:
Glypta similis (Brid.) (Ichneumonidae)
Campoplex difformis (Gmel.) (Ichneumonidae)
Elasmus sp. (Elasmidae)
Other species of Notocelia recorded from cultivated roses:
1. Notocelia incarnatana (Hübner)
Notocelia incarnatana adult; Notocelia incarnatana male; male genitalia N. incarnatana; female genitalia N. incarnatana
(Europe to China and Eastern Russia)
This species usually has a pronounced pink suffusion of the forewing ground colour. The male genitalia have relatively narrow valvae; in the female genitalia, the shape of the lamella postvaginalis is a diagnostic character.
2. Notocelia tetragonana (Stephens)
Notocelia tetragonana male
Notocelia tetragonana adult
(Europe, from England to Scandinavia and Romania; Trans-Caucasus)
This species can easily be recognized by the dark brown forewings with an isolated white spot on dorsum.