Species Details

ABH: 49.277

BF: 1199

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Olethreutinae

Taxon: Eucosma pupillana

Authority: (Clerck, 1759)

Vernacular: Eyed Tortrix

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in dry pastures and waste ground in parts of England and Wales. On the Isle of Wight, recorded in the past from St Catherine's Down and Ventnor, but not since the 19th Century. Distinguished from E. lacteana by the contrasting fasciate markings and white ground colour of the forewing and the well-developed, distinctively marked ocellus [Bradley]. Larva feeds within stems and roots of Wormwood.

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: 27 Jul (1995) — 27 Jul (1995)

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

Foodplant: Artemisia absinthium (Wormwood).

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/eucosma-pupillana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 1

Earliest Year: 1995

Latest Year: 1995

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