Species Details

ABH: 49.233

BF: 1156

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Olethreutinae

Taxon: Epinotia solandriana

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Varied Birch Roller

Account: Common in woodland and scrubland throughout much of the British Isles The nominate form of E. solandriana with the elongate-semiovate dorsal blotch on the forewing is distinctive, but forms with fasciate markings or with a white triangular blotch of ground colour dorsally can be confused with similar forms of E. brunnichana; in E. solandriana the dorsal blotch is triangular instead of subquadrate [Bradley]. Larva feeds on Birch, Hazel and Goat Willow, living within a spun or rolled leaf.

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 — 21 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 11 Jul (2011) — 2 Aug (2019)

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

Foodplant: Betula sp. (a birch), Corylus sp., Rosa sp. (a Rose), Salix caprea (Goat Willow).

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/epinotia-solandriana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 10

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1995

Latest Year: 2019

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