Species Details

ABH: 49.128

BF: 946

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Tortricinae

Taxon: Aethes rubigana

Authority: (Treitschke, 1830)

Vernacular: Burdock Straw

Account: Common on waste ground and dry open areas throughout the British Isles. In our area reasonably well-distributed, including the Isle of Wight in recent years. Wingspan 15-19 mm. Distinguished from A. cnicana by its usually larger size and the broader, more oblique and almost invariably clearly interrupted, median fascia of the forewing [Bradley]. Larva feeds within seedheads of Greater and Lesser Burdock.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 15 — 19 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 26 Jun (2017) — 20 Aug (2021)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Arctium minus (Lesser Burdock), Arctium sp. (a burdock).

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/aethes-rubigana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 15

Individuals: 10

Earliest Year: 2003

Latest Year: 2025

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