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Family: Tortricidae   Checklist Number: 49.380

Pammene gallicana  (Guenée, 1845)

Purple Marbled Tortrix

Rarely recorded with just single records from Benbecula and South Uist. Flying by day from July to August over machair and sand-dunes. The larval food-plants include hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris) and wild carrot (Daucus carota).

References: 
Sterling, P. & Parsons, M. (2023 second edition). Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

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