Species Details

ABH: 71.011

BF: 2015

Family: Notodontidae

Subfamily: Notodontinae

Taxon: Drymonia ruficornis

Authority: (Hufnagel, 1766)

Vernacular: Lunar Marbled Brown

Account: Local in woodland, hedgerows, parks and gardens throughout the British Isles. The principal confusion species are Marbled Brown D. dodonaea, which lacks the distinct crescentic marking in the pale central area of the forewing near the costa, and which has less well-defined cross-lines than Lunar Marbled Brown; and Dusky Marbled Brown Gluphisia crenata, an extremely rare immigrant, which see. Larva feeds on Pedunculate, Sessile and Turkey Oak, over-wintering as a pupa.

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: 38 — 46 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 17 Mar (2024) — 14 Jun (1975)

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

Foodplant: Quercus sp. (an oak).

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 786

Individuals: 1168

Earliest Year: 1881

Latest Year: 2025

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