Fletcher's Cydia Moth

Appearance

From the original description by Kearfott 1907:

"Enarmonia fletcherana, sp. nov.
Expanse, 13-15 mm.
Head, palpi and antenna cream-white; thorax cream-white, smooth and shining, with an iridescent reflection; abdomen shining fuscous above, cream-white below; legs cream-white, the anterior pair lightly banded with light brown in front. Fore wing: Inner half of wing, including basal area, cream-white; the basal area is defined by a broken angulated line of black, starting as a short, outwardly oblique dash from inner fifth of costa to upper edge of cell; in middle of cell, about one third from base, the line begins again, and continues obliquely to inner fourth of dorsum. In the white area the costa is marked with two or three dark dots, and as many on dorsum
beyond the dark line. The white area extends to inner two fifths on costa and to outer third on dorsum; beyond it the outer half of wing is black, thickly mottled with metallic-blue scales. While the division is sharply marked, the edges of the white and dark areas are uregular. In the black area, at the end of cell, is a large patch of blue metallic scales, some of which edge the white area; there are a few whitish scales in this patch, and through its.middle it sends a black line into the white area. The terminal line is black, preceded by an olivaceous ochreous shade, and the same
shade continues below costa, in the dark area, on which arc three blackish-brown
spots, edged with pale ochreous on inner, the larger spot on costa, marks the beginning of the dark area. From the pale pale ochreous costal lines the metallic-blue lines begin below the costa, where they touch the termen; they cut the black terminal line with pale ochreous dashes, one below apex, one above tornus, and one in tornus: these ochreous terminal dashes are of the same value as the costal ochreous dashes. All of the large ocellic area is overlaid with lines of melallic-blue. Cilia grayish fuscous,
shading into pale-ochreous at base and around tornus. Hind wing light smoky-brown, paler toward base, cilia pale ochreous, l)receded by a dark basal line; under side darker, mottled along costa. Underside fore wing dark smoky-brown, costal spots repeated."

Naming

Cydia fletcherana Kearfott, 1907
Enarmonia fletcherana Kearfott, 1907

Specific epithet in honor of Dr. James Fletcher (1852–1908), botanist and entomologist of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa.

Distribution

USA: West Virginia
Canada: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec