tortrix in English
noun
1
a small moth with typically green caterpillars that live inside rolled leaves and can be a serious pest of fruit and other trees.
MLEs were detected in the summer fruit tortrix Adoxophyes orana fasciata and the tea tortrix Homona magnanima, but no MLEs were detected in the parasitoid wasp Ascogaster quadridentata.
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1. Aphelia is a genus of tortrix moths in tribe Archipini.