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LEPIDOPTERA, Tortricidae -- <Images> & <Juveniles>

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Sometimes a species of the phytophagous Tortricidae is found to be predatory on other insects. Tortrix callopista Dur. is predaceous on Stictococcus in western Africa. The larvae tunnel among the scales and consume the body contents from below (Lamborn 1914).

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