Grapholita internana

Grapholita internana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Balkan Peninsula and Fennoscandia.^[2]

Grapholita internana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tortricidae
Genus:	Grapholita
Species:	G. internana
Binomial name
Grapholita internana (Guenée, 1845)[1]
Synonyms
Stigmonota internana Guenee, 1845 Enarmonia internana f. divisella Dufrane, 1960 Stigmonota erectana Barrett, 1875 Enarmonia internana f. flexuosella Dufrane, 1960 Euspila internana tristana Toll, 1953

The wingspan is 9–10 mm.The forewings are dark fuscous . The costa has eight rather long white strigulae, some ending in violet-silvery metallic marks. There is a narrow curved whitish median dorsal blotch, with dark fuscous lighter basally. A central line. The ocellus is represented by a violet-silvery-metallic transverse mark. The hindwings in the male are white, the apex narrowly dark fuscous; in the female they are dark fuscous, paler basally.^[3]

Adults are on wing from April to June.^[4]

The larvae feed on the seeds within seedpods of Ulex europaeus.