Acleris umbrana
Dark-streaked Tortrix
TortricidaeABH 49.075 B&F 1052A former national rarity, now expanding its range to the north. Taken regularly by A. R. Hayward from Ashlands Coppice, Haselbury Plucknett, 1926-1938 (one of the few locations for it in the country at the time), but not heard from again till turning up in Wells in 2004 and 2006. Since then it has been found more or less annually, thinly distributed across the county but not yet recorded west of Bridgwater/Taunton.
Adult Verification Grade: 3