Species Details

ABH: 49.289

BF: 1187

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Olethreutinae

Taxon: Epiblema costipunctana

Authority: (Haworth, 1811)

Vernacular: Ragwort Root-borer

Account: Common in rough meadows and on waste ground throughout the British Isles Similar in size and general appearance to E. cnicicolana but distinguished by the better-defined and ferruginous-brown fasciate markings of the forewing, the more sharply defined costal strigulae and the subquadrate medio-dorsal blotch which is weakly strigulate and sometimes connected to the costa by whitish striae [Bradley]. Larva feeds within lower stems and roots of Common Ragwort, over-wintering in a cocoon.

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 — 18 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 13 May (2012) — 24 Jul (2012)

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: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/epiblema-costipunctana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 30

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1999

Latest Year: 2018

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