Species Details

ABH: 73.225

BF: 2248

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Xyleninae

Taxon: Dryobotodes eremita

Authority: (Fabricius, 1775)

Vernacular: Brindled Green

Account: Common wherever there are oak trees, in broad-leaved woodland, parks and gardens throughout the British Isles. Widespread and reasonably common in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight. Wingspan 32-39 mm. A regular visitor to light traps in autumn, usually in small numbers. Larva feeds on buds and leaves of Pedunculate and Sessile Oak.

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: 32 — 39 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 27 Aug (2005) — 7 Nov (2015)

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: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/dryobotodes-eremita/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 610

Individuals: 525

Earliest Year: 1831

Latest Year: 2025

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