Its wingspan is 12–14 mm. The face is white. The forewings are yellow, strigulated with dark fuscous and striated with leaden grey, more strongly posteriorly. The basal patch and central fascia are dark fuscous, the space between them forming a broad slightly curved pale striated fascia. There is a dark fuscous streak from the costa at 2/3 to the middle of the termen. The hindwings are dark grey. The larva is pale yellow; head black; plate of 2 reddish [1]
Adults are on wing from June to July.[2] to eat rotting wood.
^Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
^Grabe (1942), Baixeras et al. (2009), and see references in Savela (2005)
^Tortrix latifasciana here refers to the species named by Haworth in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London in 1811. In the same year, he used the same name for Acleris laterana in Lepidoptera Britannica.
Grabe, Albert (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen ["Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars"]. Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins27: 105-109 [in German]. PDF fulltext
Savela, Markku (2005): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Celypha aurofasciana [sic]. Version of 2005-SEP-14. Retrieved 2010-APR-19.
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