49.380 Pammene gallicana (Purple Marbled Tortrix)
ws: 10-13mm; Jul-Aug; wild carrot (Daucus carota) and other umbellifers; NS-B throughout GB
Synonym: Cydia gallicana (BTM)
Synonym: Cydia gallicana (BTM)
Pammene gallicana §1 male
ID: Obscurely marked and variable, generally dark with extensive purplish-plumbeous suffusion and a brown head, thorax and tegulae.
Grapholita janthinana is similar but averages smaller (ws 9-11mm) and has an ochreous-yellow terminal band on the forewing.
Male genitalia: both the costa and ventral margin of the valva are shallowly concave; aedeagus sigmoid.
Grapholita janthinana is similar but averages smaller (ws 9-11mm) and has an ochreous-yellow terminal band on the forewing.
Male genitalia: both the costa and ventral margin of the valva are shallowly concave; aedeagus sigmoid.
Dissection
Male genitalia
§1 Foulness, Essex; 20/07/2014; male; fw 5.1mm
All images © Chris Lewis
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 17/08/2014 (§1)
