49.016 Archips rosana (Rose Tortrix)
ws: 15-24mm (BTM), fw male 7-8mm, female 8-11mm (Sterling & Parsons); Jul-Sep: various fruit trees and cultivated rose (Rosa spp); once common throughout GB, now declining
Archips rosana §1 male
ID: Forewing brown with darker brown markings: a subbasal, subdorsal patch; an oblique median fascia, narrow at the costa, much broader towards the dorsum; a preapical patch the distal margin of which is extended as a narrow line to the tornus; male has costal fold, absent in female. Hindwing grey-brown tinged fuscous towards apex. Female larger with a pointed apex, greater strigulation of the forewing and usually the line from preapical spot to tornus is weakly developed.
§1 Dungeness, Kent; 10/06/2019; male; fw 8.7mm; to light
§2 Orlestone Forest, Kent; 07/07/2019; male
All images © Chris Lewis
§2 Orlestone Forest, Kent; 07/07/2019; male
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 13/06/2019 (§1) - dissection images and ID text added 22/01/2020 | §2 added 30/01/2020
