223 Rhopobota naevana

TORTRICIDAE | Olethreutinae: Eucosmini

49.223 Rhopobota naevana (Holly Tortrix)

ws: 12-16mm; Jun-Sep; holly (Ilex aquifolium) and a variety of rosaceous trees and shrubs; common throughout GB.

Rhopobota naevana §3 female

ID: Very variable in degree of suffusion and strigulation of ground colour. Forewing has a subfalcate apex in both sexes. The male has a large patch of specialised grey-black (androconial) scales on the underside of the hindwing.
Male genitalia: uncus absent; P&M refer to long clubbed hairy 'labides' as characteristic of this genus - these originate at the junction of the transtilla with the valval costa on each side and terminate in a midline fused hairy pad.

Variation
Dissection
Male genitalia
Female genitalia

§1 Westcliff-on-sea, Essex; 20/06/2011; female
§2 Ardnamurchan, Highlands; 12/07/2012
§3 Ardnamurchan, Highlands; 13/07/2012; female
§4 Strumpshaw fen, Norfolk; 26/07/2012; male; fw 6.8mm
§5 Bookham Common, Surrey; 16/07/2013; female; fw 7.6mm
§6 Arnside, Cumbria; 26/07/2013; fw 6.1mm
§7 Duddon Moss, Cumbria; 22/07/2016; male; fw 6.8mm; netted by day
§8 Pound Wood, Essex; 27/08/2019; female; fw 6.6mm
§9 Cliburn Moss, Cumbria; 30/07/2019; female; fw 6.2mm
§10 Pound Wood, Essex; 16/07/2021; male; fw 6.6mm
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