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Tuesday, 4 June 2019

I`m stuck!...

Any suggestions for this one please? Caught in my garden trap on Saturday night (1/6). Its face is black and size is just over 0.75 cm. Thanks.


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6 comments:

  1. Steve Clarke4 June 2019 at 12:11

    I am useless at Tortricids, but it looks ever so much like the photo of Spilonota laricana on page 148 of CMM's 2nd Edition. Have you got larch nearby?

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  2. Ian Morgan 4 June 2019 at 21:44

    Thanks Steve. I`m really glad that you said that species, as it`s on my shortlist but I`ve been caught out by suggesting that one before. With luck others may give an opinion.

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  3. Ian Morgan 4 June 2019 at 21:45

    PS. and I forgot say that there are larches nearby.

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  4. Ian Morgan 5 June 2019 at 00:26

    I`ve also now remembered (after reading up about it) that the issue I had before (back in 2017) re laricana was that it really needs dissection to differentiate from the commoner ocellana, even though my (since released) specimen looks like the latter.

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  5. GMT6 June 2019 at 09:01

    Yes I think it will have to go down as ocellana/laricana.

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  6. Ian Morgan 6 June 2019 at 10:55

    Thanks George - I suspected so!

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