Species Details

ABH: 49.013

BF: 977

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Tortricinae

Taxon: Archips podana

Authority: (Scopoli, 1763)

Vernacular: Large Fruit-tree Tortrix

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats, including gardens, orchards, hedgerows and woodland, throughout England and Wales. Well distributed across much of Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight. Wingspan male 19-23 mm, female 20-28 mm. The male lacks the purple-brown ground colour of the forewing of A. oporana; the female is more similar to A. betulana but readily distinguished by the orange coloration in the apical half of the hindwing [Bradley]. Larva polyphagous on a wide variety of deciduous trees and shrubs, even occasionally on conifers, living within a spun or rolled leaf, and sometimes a pest on Apple trees.

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: male 19 — 23 mm; female 20 — 28 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 11 May (2025) — 14 Oct (2014)

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

Foodplant: Polyphagous.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/archips-podana/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 406

Individuals: 369

Earliest Year: 1988

Latest Year: 2025

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