Tortricidae

49.222 Small Cowberry Marble Rhopobota ustomaculana (Curtis, 1831)

Notable A

Similar species:

Forewing: 5 to 7mm

Habitats: Moorland.

Habits: The moth flies on sunny afternoons and warm evenings.

Foodplant: The larva at first mines a leaf of Cowberry or possibly Bilberry, then later it spins the leaves, feeding from the leaf surface and leaving the underside intact. It pupates in the spinning.