Species Details

ABH: 63.100

BF: 1314

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Crambinae

Taxon: Catoptria margaritella

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Pearl-banded Grass-moth

Account: Probable immigrant. A local species of boggy heaths and moors.

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: 20 — 24mm

Surrey Flight Period: 27 Jul (2010) — 27 Jul (2010)

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

Foodplant: Grasses and Mosses.

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

Status: Migrant

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/catoptria-margaritella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 1

Earliest Year: 2010

Latest Year: 2010

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