Ptycholoma lecheana
Brindled Tortrix
Wingspan 16-20 mm. Quite a distinctive species with a dark brownish ground colour, variously suffused with yellowish scales and patches of metallic silver.
Woodland and orchards.
June to July is the main flight period.
The larvae feed inside the rolled leaves of a variety of trees and shrubs.
It is distributed throughout England and Wales becoming scarcer further north into Scotland. In the Butterfly Conservation’s Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.
Fairly frequent but not common in Leicestershire & Rutland. L&R Moth Group status = B (scarce resident or restricted distribution or regular migrant)
 M69 Motorway Island Sapcote SP 4635 9382 (taken 4.6.2010)..JPG)
Graham Calow
M69 Island, Sapcote
04 June 2010
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Harecroft Crescent
28 May 2017
David Nicholls
Ratcliffe Culey
07 June 2018
sue
Glenfield, former Hospital sports field
31 May 2019
Dave Gamble
Leicester Forest East garden
21 May 2020
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows, Spearwort Fields
05 June 2021
 M69 Motorway Island Sapcote SP 4635 9382 (taken 4.6.2010)..JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Brindled Twist
- Species group:
- Moths
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Tortricidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 16
- First record:
- 04/06/2010 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 16/06/2021 (Leonard, Pete)
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