Species Details

ABH: 73.113

BF: 2306

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Xyleninae

Taxon: Phlogophora meticulosa

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Angle Shades

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats, including gardens, hedgerows, fens and woodland throughout the British Isles. Unmistakable resting posture with forewing folded in on itself at the costa only shared by the much smaller Small Angle Shades Euplexia lucipara. Larva polyphagous on a wide range of herbaceous and woody plants, including Stinging Nettle, Hop, Red Valerian, Broad-leaved Dock, Bramble, Silver and Downy Birch, Sessile and Pedunculate Oak, and Hazel.

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: 50 — 60 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 5 Jan (1960) — 29 Dec (2011)

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: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/phlogophora-meticulosa/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1365

Individuals: 750

Earliest Year: 1831

Latest Year: 2025

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