Species Details

ABH: 62.058

BF: 1483

Family: Pyralidae

Subfamily: Phycitinae

Taxon: Phycitodes binaevella

Authority: (Hübner, [1813])

Vernacular: Spotted Knot-horn

Account: Common in rough ground and meadows throughout England and Ireland. This easiest of the Phycitodes to identify, more robust than its congeners and more strongly marked, with the three dots well-developed and characteristically placed [Goater]. Larva feeds within flowerheads of Thistle, Tansy and Mugwort.

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: 22 — 27 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 22 May (2015) — 2 Aug (2018)

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

Foodplant: Carduus pycnocephalus (Plymouth Thistle), Cirsium vulgare (Spear Thistle).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 45

Individuals: 8

Earliest Year: 1992

Latest Year: 2025

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