Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916)

FAMILY	Tortricidae
SUBFAMILY	Olethreutinae
GENUS	Grapholita
SPECIES	molesta
AUTHOR	(Busck, 1916)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Laspeyresia molesta, n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	U.S.A., Virginia, Arlington.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, type no 20664, USNM.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Busck A. 1916. Description of the moth. - In: Quaintance A. L., Laspeyresia molesta, an important new insect enemy of the peach. - Journal of Agricultural Research 7(8):373-377, pls 26-31.
PAGINATION	373-374

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
South Africa	Western Cape	Blomefield T. L. & Geertsema H. 1990. First record of the oriental fruit moth, Cydia molesta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae), a serious pest of peaches, in South Africa. - Phytophylactica 22(3):355-357.	355 (introduced)

Notes: Australasia: Australia; Nearctic: U.S.A.; Palaearctic: China, Japan.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Rosaceae	Prunus persica	South Africa	Blomefield T. L. & Geertsema H. 1990. First record of the oriental fruit moth, Cydia molesta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae), a serious pest of peaches, in South Africa. - Phytophylactica 22(3):355-357.	355
Rosaceae	Prunus domestica	South Africa	Prinsloo G. L. & Uys V. M. (Eds.) 2015. Insects of cultivated plants and natural pastures in Southern Africa. - — :i-xiv, 1-785.	341
Rosaceae	Pyrus sp.	South Africa	Prinsloo G. L. & Uys V. M. (Eds.) 2015. Insects of cultivated plants and natural pastures in Southern Africa. - — :i-xiv, 1-785.	367
Rosaceae	Cydonia oblonga	South Africa	Prinsloo G. L. & Uys V. M. (Eds.) 2015. Insects of cultivated plants and natural pastures in Southern Africa. - — :i-xiv, 1-785.	376

Species Parasitoids

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION
Ichneumonidae	Trathala flavoorbitalis		Rousse P. & Villemant C. 2012. Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species. - Zootaxa 3278:1-57.
Trichogrammatidae	Trichogrammatoidea lutea	South Africa	Prinsloo G. L. & Uys V. M. (Eds.) 2015. Insects of cultivated plants and natural pastures in Southern Africa. - — :i-xiv, 1-785.