Species Details

ABH: 49.375

BF: 1234

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Olethreutinae

Taxon: Pammene regiana

Authority: (Zeller, 1849)

Vernacular: Regal Piercer

Account: Common in parks, gardens and woodland throughout the British Isles. Differs from P. trauniana in having the medio-dorsal blotch of the forewing orange-yellow and subfalcate, its outer edge curving to meet the dorsum well before the tornus, the costal strigulae less widely separated by wedges of orange-yellow ground colour and the distinctly metallic bluish striae [Bradley]. Larva feeds within seeds of Sycamore and Norway Maple, over-wintering as a pupa 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 — 16 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 27 May (2012) — 10 Aug (2007)

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

Foodplant: Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore), Acer sp. (a maple).

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/pammene-regiana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 38

Individuals: 4

Earliest Year: 1988

Latest Year: 2024

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