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Family: Tortricidae   Checklist Number: 49.127

Aethes cnicana  (Westwood, 1854)

Thistle Straw

Common with all records currently from South Uist and Eriskay. The flight period is from May to August. The habitat is wherever the food-plant, thistles, occurs. The larvae overwinter.

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

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