Lepidoptera Outer Hebrides

Family: Tortricidae   Checklist Number: 49.139

Cochylis atricapitana   Stephens, 1852

Black-headed Conch

Probably under-recorded as the foodplant is widespread on the cultivated machair. Bivoltine: occurs from May to June and in August. Common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) is the larval foodplant

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