49.341 BF1260 – Tortricidae – Olethreutinae – Cydia splendana
Tortricidae – Olethreutinae – Cydia splendana
STATUS – Locally common where there is oak woodland.
ID POINTERS – Base of forewing pale greyish, speckled with darker brown with whitish-grey cross-bands. Rear end of forewing darker brown suffused with metallic purple blotches and four or five black dashes. Cydia pomonella has longer wings, a large coppery ocellus and fine transverse brownish lines
FLIGHT PERIOD – On the wing during July – October.
IMAGES – Melbourne, Derbyshire – Tony Davison©
