Wingspan 18 to 22 mm.  A rather peculiar species, the male with elongated forewings, and the female having much reduced vestigial wings.

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Occupying hedgerows in the south, but having more of a preference for moorland further north.

One of the latest of the Tortricidae to be on the wing, occurring from October into December.

It is patchily distributed over a large part of Britain. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as local.

Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland. The Charnwood Lodge record in October 2021 was only the fourth for VC55.