Species Details

ABH: 63.086

BF: 1301

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Crambinae

Taxon: Crambus lathoniellus

Authority: (Zincken, 1817)

Vernacular: Meadow Grass-moth

Account: Common in grassland and rough meadows throughout the British Isles. The only confusion species is C. pratella, but C. lathoniellus is smaller, and the median longitudinal streak is narrower with the anterior edge straight, not angulated [Goater]. Larva feeds within roots and lower stems of various grasses.

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: 18 — 22 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 5 May (2011) — 10 Oct (2017)

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

Foodplant: Deschampsia cespitosa (Tufted Hair-grass), Gramineae.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/crambus-lathoniellus/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 309

Individuals: 51

Earliest Year: 1994

Latest Year: 2025

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