Species Details

ABH: 73.288

BF: 2191

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Hadeninae

Taxon: Mythimna turca

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1761)

Vernacular: Double Line

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in parks, open woodland, damp grassland, woodland edges and scrub in parts of south-western England. It seems to have vanished from many of its old haunts in the eastern part of southern England and is now found most commonly in suitable areas of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, south-west and central Wales and Cheshire. The reasons for its decline are not understood Larva feeds on Common Bent, Creeping Soft-grass, Cock's-foot and Wood Meadow-grass.

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: 44 — 52 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 7 Jun (2010) — 3 Aug (1931)

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

Foodplant: Dactylis glomerata (Cock's-foot), Gramineae., Luzula sp., Poa nemoralis (Wood Meadow-grass).

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP: BAP

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/mythimna-turca/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 132

Individuals: 678

Earliest Year: 1881

Latest Year: 2025

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