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Cydia millenniana
Checklist Number49.337 [B&F: 1258]
Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification
Classification
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Subfamily: | Olethreutinae |
| Genus: | Cydia |
| Species: | millenniana |
| Authority: | (Adamczewski, 1967) |
Rare on dry, sandy heathland in the Brecks and elsewhere in East Anglia. Unlikely to be recorded in Hampshire or on the Isle of Wight. Wingspan 13-18 mm. Distinguished by the dark grey-brown general coloration of the forewing and the conspicuous, subtriangular or subquadrate black-brown patch representing the median fascia in the discocellular area [Bradley]. Larva feeds within bark of European Larch, forming galls, over-wintering twice.
