Archips mimicus
{{Short description|Species of moth}}
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| taxon = Archips mimicus
| authority = Walsingham, in Swinhoe, 1900[http://www.tortricidae.com/catalogueGenusList.asp?gcode=106 Tortricidae.com]
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- Cacoecia epicyrta Meyrick, 1905
- Archips mimica
- Archips epicyrta
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Archips mimicus is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Lord Walsingham in 1900. It is found in India, Sri Lanka{{cite journal |last1=Koçak |first1=Ahmet Ömer |last2=Kemal |first2=Muhabbet |date=20 February 2012 |url=https://www.academia.edu/1782757/Ko%C3%A7ak_A.%C3%96._and_M._Kemal_2012_Preliminary_list_of_the_Lepidoptera_of_Sri_Lanka._Cesa_News_79_1-57 |title=Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka |journal=Cesa News |issue=79 |pages=1–57 |publisher=Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara |accessdate=29 July 2018}} and Malaysia. In the Catalogue of Life, the species is considered as a synonym of Archips dispilana.{{cite web |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/d5901b536013e5de48d37dc6224400af/synonym/f3aadef64754160fda39458fed1b8116 |title=Species Details: Archips dispilana Walker, 1864 |website=Catalogue of Life |accessdate=29 July 2018}}
Biology
It is superficially similar to Archips eupatris.{{cite journal |last=Diakonoff |first=A. |date=1982 |url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149137 |title=On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |journal=Zoologische Verhandelingen |volume=193 |pages=1–124 |via=Naturalis Biodiversity Center}}
The larvae feed on Morus, Nephelium lappaceum, Peltophorum, Piper, Prunus, Psidium guajava, Renanthera coccinea, Theobroma cacao, Uncaria gambir, Amherstia nobilis, Bouea macrophylla, Camellia sinensis, Capsicum, Citrus, Coffea liberica, Dalbergia sissoo, Duranta, Glycine max, Indigofera zollingeriana and Lantana species (including Lantana camara).[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/hostplants/search//list.dsml?&Familyqtype=starts+with&Family=&PFamilyqtype=starts+with&PFamily=&Genusqtype=starts+with&Genus=Archips&PGenusqtype=starts+with&PGenus=&Speciesqtype=starts+with&Species=semistructa&PSpeciesqtype=starts+with&PSpecies=&Country=&sort=Family HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants]
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Category:Moths described in 1900
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