Epiblema foenella

Epiblema foenella, the white-foot bell, is a moth of the family Tortricidae.

This quite-common moth has dark brown forewings with a striking falcate medio-dorsal white marking and a gray-colored area at the ends of the wings.

The larvae feed on the roots and lower stem of mugwort or common wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris), of southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum) and of golden marguerite (Anthemis tinctoria).

[1][2][3][4][5] This species can be found in most of Europe, southern Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, the Russian Far East, China (Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang),[6] Korea, Japan, India, Taiwan and Vietnam.

[7][8] The white-foot bell prefers rough uncultivated ground, grassland, scrub, river banks and coastal cliffs.

River banks in Val Veny , about 1600 m above sea level, habitat of Epiblema foenella