Species Details

ABH: 73.264

BF: 2158

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Hadeninae

Taxon: Lacanobia thalassina

Authority: (Hufnagel, 1766)

Vernacular: Pale-shouldered Brocade

Account: Common in woodland, scrubland, moorland and fens throughout the British Isles. Dark reddish-brown, often with pale irroration, eyes hairy (visible with hand lens) and pale shoulders (not unique to this species); resembles Beautiful Brocade L. contigua (diagonal white band across forewing), Clouded Brindle Apamea epomidion (eye hairless), Dusky Brocade Apamea remissa (eye hairless) and Dark Brocade Blepharita adusta (no pale basal patch). Larva feeds on a wide range of woody plants, including Pedunculate and Sessile Oak, Hawthorn, Apple, Sallow, Aspen and Honeysuckle, 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 — 44 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 28 Apr (1961) — 3 Aug (1970)

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

Foodplant: Polyphagous.

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/lacanobia-thalassina/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 359

Individuals: 164

Earliest Year: 1908

Latest Year: 2014

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