Small, brown and mothy (1 Viewer)

[InternetMan]

This wee tortrix is doing my head in. I swear he even looks blurry in a 10x hand lens.

He's about half a centimetre long, obscurely marked in grey-brown on brown-grey, and came to actinic light in Sussex last night.

I can't even get to genus. Anyone? Please?

 

[rosaria]

Looks to me like a Holly Tortrix - Rhopobota naevana.

 

[InternetMan]

Thanks Rosaria. Not the first time I've been caught out by this one. But Googling around, that terminal fold and 'flat winged' appearance seem omnipresent, so hopefully I've got this species down now.

 

[rosaria]

Yes, a very distinctive stance - if only the rest of the torts had good distinguishing features!