Species Details

ABH: 74.008

BF: 2422

Family: Nolidae

Subfamily: Chloephorinae

Taxon: Pseudoips prasinana

=Pseudoips prasinana britannica

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Green Silver-lines

Account: Common in deciduous woodland and rural gardens throughout the British Isles. Unmistakable. Larva feeds on Oak and Beech, but also on various other species of deciduous tree and shrub, including Birch and Hazel, over-wintering as a pupa.

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: 33 — 39 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 6 May (2011) — 28 Jul (1978)

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: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/pseudoips-prasinana/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 609

Individuals: 155

Earliest Year: 1904

Latest Year: 2022

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