Conifer Cydia

Cydia 030614

I caught this at Iken Cliff on 3 June, at a site with plenty of Scots Pine. These Cydia species are certainly not a strong point of mine as I catch very few. FW length of 6mm.

Anyone care to have a guess and put a name to it? Thanks for looking, Paul

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2 Responses to Conifer Cydia

  1. Neil says:

    Paul, I get quite a few of these so they are familiar to me. Your one looks like Cydia conicolana, shows the paler basal area and the ocellus looks quite small with small black streaks in. C. cosmophorana has a larger ocellus with large black streaks in and doesn’t tend to have the paler basal area. C. coniferana normally has very whitish cross lines, the first substantially kinked.
    Hope this clears it up for you.

    Neil

    • Paul Kitchener says:

      Thank you Neil, I had a feeling that you would be able to help. All the best, Paul

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