Species Details

ABH: 11.002

BF: 175

Family: Psychidae

Subfamily: Naryciinae

Taxon: Narycia duplicella

=Narycia monilifera

Authority: (Goeze, 1783)

Vernacular: White-speckled Bagworm

Account: Common in woodland, gardens, orchards and parks throughout much of England and Wales, becoming more local northwards to southern Scotland. Locally common in Hampshire, where cases are found most often on old trunks of hawthorn, oak and yew. Recorded on the Isle of Wight in 1893 and 1950, but not since. Wingspan male 9-12 mm, female 7-10 mm. The adult moths are seen occasionally, but most records are of larval cases. Larva feeds on lichens growing on tree trunks and fence posts, living within a movable case.

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: male 9 — 12 mm; female 7 — 10 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 4 Jun (2011) — 23 Jun (2015)

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

Foodplant:

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

Click here to view the full geology map of Surrey.

Verification Grade: 1m — Relatively easily identified (males only) 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/narycia-duplicella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 10

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2015

« Previous Random 🎲 Next »