Species Details

ABH: 49.316

BF: 1278

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Olethreutinae

Taxon: Dichrorampha sequana

Authority: (Hübner, [1799])

Vernacular: White-spot Yarrow Moth

Account: Local in dry pastures, gardens, orchards, parks and waste ground throughout southern England and south Wales Day-flying in afternoon sunshine. Recognised by the conspicuous, vertical, cream-white rectangular medio-dorsal blotch of the forewing [Bradley]. Larva feeds within roots of Tansy and Yarrow.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 9 — 11 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 16 May (2012) — 20 Jun (2002)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Achillea millefolium (Yarrow), Tanacetum vulgare (Tansy).

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/dichrorampha-sequana/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 21

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1999

Latest Year: 2020

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