Species Details

ABH: 49.137

BF: 964

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Tortricinae

Taxon: Neocochylis dubitana

Authority: (Hübner, [1799])

Vernacular: White-faced Straw

Account: Common on dry pastures and waste ground throughout southern England and southern Wales, north to Yorkshire Similar to C. atricapitana, in which the head and labial palpus are blackish grey, and C. hybridella, in which the thorax is white (blackish in C. dubitana). Larva feeds within flowers of Common Ragwort, Rough Hawk's-beard, Smooth Hawk's-beard and Goldenrod, 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: 11 — 16 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 9 May (2011) — 31 Aug (2005)

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

Foodplant:

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/neocochylis-dubitana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 20

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1999

Latest Year: 2018

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