Species Details

ABH: 32.017

BF: 697

Family: Depressariidae

Subfamily: Depressariinae

Taxon: Agonopterix arenella

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Brindled Buff

Account: Common in rough grassland, waste ground, gardens and a wide range of other habitats throughout much of the British Isles Larva feeds on Thistle (both Carduus and Cirsium), Knapweed, Burdock and Saw-wort, living within a spun or rolled leaf.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 16 — 22 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 25 Jan (2020) — 23 Oct (2014)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Arctium sp. (a burdock), Carduus sp., Centaurea sp., Cirsium sp., Serratula sp.

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 2 — Care needed to identify 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/agonopterix-arenella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 102

Individuals: 17

Earliest Year: 1985

Latest Year: 2024

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