Photo © John Jennings

Pseudococcyx posticana

Checklist Number
49.299 [B&F: 1208]

Verification
Record will normally be accepted but photo evidence may be required - check with CMR if not sure of identity

Classification

Family:Tortricidae
Subfamily:Olethreutinae
Genus:Pseudococcyx
Species:posticana
Authority:(Zetterstedt, 1839)

Nationally scarce (Nb) in pine woodland and on heathland throughout the British Isles. In Hampshire found mainly in the New Forest where, by dint of hard searching, hollowed-out, resinous buds on the lateral shoots of small Scots pine trees, which hold the larva, can be located — there are very few records in Hampshire outside the New Forest, including just one from north Hampshire. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 11-16 mm. Distinguished from Clavigesta sylvestrana by the light tawny-brown coloration of the labial palps, head, thorax and tegulae, which in C. sylvestrana are grey [Bradley]. Larva feeds on buds of Scots Pine.

The abundance in each month is indicated as follows:

No records
Very occasional
Irregular
Uncommon
Off-peak, but not unusual
Off-peak, but not unusual
Main flight time
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Adult
Larval

Records by week (adult)

Records by week (larval)

VC11 South Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Stoney Cross, NF (SU21)30/03/1991oneJ R Langmaid, B GoaterLarval
Sparsholt (SU43)28/05/1992oneTony DobsonAdult
Roydon Common (SU30)1998-Phil Budd-
Sandy Down (SZ39)1998-Phil Budd-
Southsea (SZ69)14/05/1998twoJ R LangmaidAdult
Roydon Woods HIWWT NR, NF (SZ39)20/05/1998-Phil BuddAdult
Roydon Common (SU30)1999-Phil Budd-
Town Common (SZ19)05/07/2003onePhil BuddAdult
Chandlers Ford (SU42)23/06/2005oneBrian ElliottAdult
Cosham (SU60)23/07/2005oneTerry JenningsAdult
Oxenbourne Down (SU71)24/05/2010oneTony DavisAdult
Chewton Common (SZ29)14/05/2011onePhil BuddAdult
Christchurch (SZ29)26/06/2011oneRobert A ChapmanAdult
Ashurst, NF (SU31)10/06/2015oneKeith GodfreyAdult
Foxbury (SU31)21/07/2015-Wild New Forest-
Foxbury (SU31)21/07/2015-Laura BakerAdult
Merritown Heath (SZ19)26/05/2017oneDave FootAdult
Botley Wood (SU50)15/05/2018oneMaurice OpieAdult
Hurn (SZ19)27/06/2019oneMike JeffesAdult

VC12 North Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Rye (SU75)06/05/1995oneTony DobsonAdult
Liss Forest (SU72)10/05/2020oneRichard J MooreAdult