Cochylimorpha straminea, the straw conch, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in most of Europe,[1] Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Asia Minor, the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Transcaspia, Turkmenistan[2] and Iran (the Elburz Mountains).[3] The wingspan is 13–21 mm. The costa of the forewings is almost straight. The ground colour is whitish-ochreous, clouded and strigulated with darker and a few dark fuscous scales on costa. There is an ochreous-brown streak from the dorsum before the middle and parallel to the termen, reaching rather more than half across the wing. There is a fuscous dorsal dot before the tornus and a brownish terminal line. The hind wings are rather light grey. The larva is whitish yellowish; head black; plate of 2 brown.[4] Julius von Kennel provides a full description.[5]
There are two generations per year, with adults on wing from May to July and again from late August to September.
The larvae feed on Scabiosa, Artemisia and Centaurea species.