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Family: Tortricidae   Checklist Number: 49.097

Cochylchroa atricapitana  Stephens, 1852

Black-fronted Straw

Regularly recorded on the southern island where the food-plant, common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), is widespread on the cultivated machair. Bivoltine: occurs from May to June and in August. 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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