Species Details

ABH: 18.003

BF: 465

Family: Plutellidae

Taxon: Plutella porrectella

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Streaked Diamond-back

Account: Common wherever the foodplant occurs, throughout the British Isles Similar to Diamond-back Moth P. xylostella but slightly larger and more striated, and with three darkish rings on tip of antennae (MBGBI Vol 3). Larva feeds on Dame's-violet, beneath a silken web, often several together.

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: 14 — 17 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 19 Apr (2011) — 11 Oct (2011)

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

Foodplant: Hesperis sp.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/plutella-porrectella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 37

Individuals: 2

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2021

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