Species Details

ABH: 49.382

BF: 1222

Family: Tortricidae

Subfamily: Olethreutinae

Taxon: Strophedra nitidana

Authority: (Fabricius, 1794)

Vernacular: Little Oak Tortrix

Account: Local in oak woodland throughout much of England and Wales Flies in afternoon sunshine. Smaller than S. weirana with a shorter and less attenuated forewing and comparatively well-defined fasciate markings and costal strigulae [Bradley]. Larva feeds on Oak, living between leaves spun together with silk, and over-wintering as a pupa.

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 — 10 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 3 Jun (2011) — 16 Aug (2022)

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

Foodplant: Quercus petraea (Sessile Oak), Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak), Quercus sp. (an oak).

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 2 — Care needed to identify 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/strophedra-nitidana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 15

Individuals: 6

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2022

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