Species Details

ABH: 49.299

BF: 1208

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Olethreutinae

Taxon: Pseudococcyx posticana

Authority: (Zetterstedt, 1839)

Vernacular: Dark Pine Shoot Moth

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in pine woodland and on heathland throughout the British Isles Distinguished from Clavigesta sylvestrana by the light tawny-brown coloration of the labial palps, head, thorax and tegulae, which in C. sylvestrana are grey [Bradley]. Larva feeds on buds of Scots Pine.

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: 15 May (2010) — 16 May (1992)

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: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/pseudococcyx-posticana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 2

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1992

Latest Year: 2010

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