Species Details

ABH: 32.042

BF: 676

Family: Depressariidae

Subfamily: Depressariinae

Taxon: Depressaria pulcherrimella

Authority: Stainton, 1849

Vernacular: Pignut Brown

Account: Local in flower meadows and chalk grassland in Britain, from Kent to Cornwall along the south coast and less frequently in the Midlands, Wales and northern England; more frequent throughout most of Scotland; also in western Ireland (MBGBI Vol 4 part 1) Can usually be separated from D. douglasella by the angle made by the pale fascia on the forewing which is obtusely angled in the latter and forms a right-angle in D. pulcherrimella. Larva feeds within flowers and seedheads of Pignut, Burnet-saxifrage and Wild Carrot.

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: 15 — 19 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 2 Aug (2009) — 2 Aug (2009)

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

Foodplant: Conopodium sp., Daucus sp., Pimpinella saxifraga (Burnet-saxifrage).

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 2

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2009

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