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Gray tortrix

Cnephasia stephensiana (Doubleday, 1850)

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

The gray tortrix (Cnephasia stephensiana) is a species in the family Tortricidae, order Lepidoptera.

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Quick facts about the gray tortrix

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the gray tortrix live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the gray tortrix as introduced in 1 country.

  1. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the gray tortrix endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the gray tortrix classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyTortricidae
  6. genusCnephasia
  7. SpeciesCnephasia stephensiana (Doubleday, 1850)

Synonyms Cnephasia albooctomaculana, Cnephasia alternella f. interjunctana, Cnephasia alternella f. parvana, Cnephasia alternella f. peyerimhoffi, Cnephasia alternella f. pseudochrysantheana, Cnephasia alternella f. rectilinea, Cnephasia alternella f. siennicolor, Cnephasia alternella f. vulgaris, Cnephasia anatolica, Cnephasia atlantis, Cnephasia chrysantheana ab. diffusana, Cnephasia cinereipalpana, Cnephasia clarana, Cnephasia diffusana, Cnephasia hispanica, Cnephasia interjunctana, Cnephasia kurentsovi, Cnephasia kurentzovi, Cnephasia octomaculana, Cnephasia octomaculana var. albooctomaculana, Cnephasia parvana, Cnephasia penziana var. clarana, Cnephasia penziana var. octomaculana, Cnephasia perplexana, Cnephasia peyerimhoffi, Cnephasia pseudochrysantheana, Cnephasia rectilinea, Cnephasia siennicolor, Cnephasia stolidana, Cnephasia uniformana, Cnephasia vulgaris, Cnephasia wilkinsoni, Eudemis sinuana, Sciaphila stephensiana, Sciaphila stolidana

Other names and names in other languages (20)
  • Great grey shadeEnglish
  • Grey tortrixEnglish
  • تورتريكس رماديArabic
  • obaleč jitrocelovýCzech
  • Tortrics LlwydWelsh
  • FølfodbladviklerDanish
  • Gebänderter GrauwicklerGerman
  • niittyharmokääriäinenFinnish
  • Hegyaljai sodrómolyHungarian
  • ホソバハイイロハマキJapanese
  • 얼룩회색잎말이나방Korean
  • båndgråviklerNorwegian Bokmål
  • ZomerspikkelbladrollerDutch
  • bandgråviklarNorwegian Nynorsk
  • obaľovač StephensovSlovak
  • allmän gråvecklareSwedish
  • Tortricsod LlwydWelsh
  • stor gråviklerNorwegian Bokmål
  • stor gråviklarNorwegian Nynorsk
  • sensommargråvecklareSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the gray tortrix

Other species in the same genus Cnephasia.

May shade

Cnephasia communana

TortricidaeNo free photo yet

Flax tortrix

Cnephasia asseclana

TortricidaeNo free photo yet

Coast shade

Cnephasia conspersana

TortricidaeNo free photo yet

Dover shade

Cnephasia genitalana

TortricidaeNo free photo yet

CompareGray tortrix vs Light grey shadeGray tortrix vs May shadeGray tortrix vs Meadow shadeGray tortrix vs Flax tortrix

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the gray tortrix an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the gray tortrix as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the gray tortrix?

The gray tortrix (Cnephasia stephensiana) belongs to the family Tortricidae in the order Lepidoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

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BibTeX
@misc{gray_tortrix_2026,
  title = {Gray tortrix (Cnephasia stephensiana)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/gray-tortrix},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}