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Cydia cosmophorana
Scarce Pine Piercer
Treitschke, 18351267 / 49.334
Norfolk status
Scarce.
Pine forests and plantations, most active in hot sunshine at midday and in the afternoon.

Larvae lives in resinous nodules and excrescences on the bark of the trunk and branches and also in one-year-old galls of Petrova resinella and old galls of the Pyralid Dioryctria abietella.

Recorded in 8 (12%) of 69 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1884.
Last Recorded in 2020.
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Determination
Cydia cosmorphorana, Hindolveston, Slide 1627 (J Clifton)
List Species Records   [Show All Latest]
Latest 5 Records
Date#VC10k Area
24/05/2020128TF74 - Holme/Titchwell
22/05/2020128TF74 - Holme/Titchwell
21/05/2020128TL78 - Hockwold/Weeting
21/05/2020128TL99 - Thompson/Gt.Hocking
18/05/2020128TF74 - Holme/Titchwell
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Wingspan: 8-14mm
Flight: May - June (Aug)
Foodplant:   Scots Pine, Juniper
Nat Status: Nationally Scarce B
Verification Grade:  Adult: 2
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