Species Details

ABH: 49.113

BF: 952

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Tortricinae

Taxon: Commophila aeneana

Authority: (Hübner, [1800])

Vernacular: Orange Beauty

Account: Scarce on rough meadows and waste ground in scattered localities throughout southern England. An attractive, but very local and elusive, species in our counties, it is never found in numbers and appears most common around the Basingstoke area in north Hampshire; re-found on the Isle of Wight in 2014. Wingspan 13-17 mm. Day-flying. The bright orange-yellow ground colour and submetallic markings of the forewing are characteristic [Bradley]. Larva feeds within roots of Common Ragwort.

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: 13 — 17 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 21 May (2011) — 23 Jun (1996)

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

Foodplant: Senecio jacobaea (Common Ragwort).

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 3 — Difficult to identify, an image may be required 🤔🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/commophila-aeneana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 8

Individuals: 1

Earliest Year: 1995

Latest Year: 2013

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