Archips machlopis

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| taxon = Archips machlopis

| authority = (Meyrick, 1912)

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  • Cacoecia machlopis Meyrick, 1912
  • Cacoecia compacta Meyrick, 1918
  • Cacoecia isocyrta Meyrick, 1920
  • Cacoecia seminubila Meyrick, in de Joannis, 1930
  • Cacoecia transcutata Meyrick, 1935

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Archips machlopis is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is widely distributed in southern Asia (including Pakistan, Nepal, China, India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia: Sumatra, Java).[https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/455/45512048004.pdf Tortricidae from Vietnam in the collection of the Berlin Museum. 5. Archipini and Sparganothini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)]

The wingspan is 16–20 mm for males and 18–22 mm for females. In Malaysia, adults are on wing from July to November, in Indonesia the flight time is February and March, and from July to September.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025}}

The larvae feed on Medicago, Gloriosa superba, Cedrela toonica, Rumex, Citrus, Salix, Litchi and Camellia sinensis.{{cite web|url=http://wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/tortricidae.php?menuentry=soorten&id=127|title=Eti Bioinformatics|first=|last=Marcel|date=|website=wbd.etibioinformatics.nl|accessdate=10 July 2018}}

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Category:Moths described in 1912

Category:Archips

Category:Moths of Asia

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