Irish moths

Epiblema trimaculana/roborana

Family: Tortricidae        Sub-family: Olethreutinae

1176 or 1178     *     Epiblema trimaculana/roborana


Epiblema trimaculana:
15-17mm. Flight time June-July. Larvae feed on Hawthorn.

Epiblema roborana:
18-21 mm. Flight time June-August. Larvae feed on Rosa sp.

Epiblema rosaecolana is also very similar


Epiblema trimaculana/roborana

Epiblema trimaculana/roborana
Ballingeary, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. July 2011

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