My first Hedya nubiferana of the year appeared last night, hot on the heels of Hedya pruniana caught a few days ago. Both of these Tortricids are easily tapped from hedges in lowland Monmouthshire, and are much commoner than the lookalike genus Apotomis in most of the county, so please rule them out when you catch one of these black & white Torts. The black spot, arrowed in the photo, is key to identifying these two Hedya - it's on the costal side of the angle in the dark basal patch in H. nubiferana and distad (towards the end of the wing) of the angle in H. pruniana. There are useful annotated photos on the Carmarthenshire Moth Blog (http://www.carmarthenshiremoths.co.uk/2014/07/hedya-revisited.html).
Thanks for pointing that out Sam as I find then tricky to differentiate.
ReplyDeleteLooking at that I think I've come up with another Hedya pruniana.