Species Details

ABH: 45.025

BF: 1490

Family: Pterophoridae

Subfamily: Pterophorinae

Taxon: Oxyptilus parvidactyla

Authority: (Haworth, 1811)

Vernacular: Small Plume

Account: Local, on heaths, dry pastures and chalk downland, throughout the British Isles Difficult to differentiate from other Oxyptilus, unless reared from the host plant or via dissection. A diurnal moth, and can be seen in afternoon sunshine, until dusk. The flight period is June to July.Larva feeds on Mouse-ear Hawkweed, living within a spun or rolled leaf.

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: 13 — 18mm

Surrey Flight Period: 2 Jun (2000) — 10 Jul (2015)

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

Foodplant: Hieracium pilosella.

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 13

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2017

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