Species Details

ABH: 70.024

BF: 1690

Family: Geometridae

Subfamily: Sterrhinae

Taxon: Scopula imitaria

Authority: (Hübner, [1799])

Vernacular: Small Blood-vein

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats including gardens, hedgerows and broad-leaved woodland throughout England. Larva assumed to feed on woody plants such as Privet and Honeysuckle.

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: 26 — 29 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 24 May (2011) — 4 Oct (2018)

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

Foodplant: Ligustrum sp., 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/scopula-imitaria/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 633

Individuals: 578

Earliest Year: 1899

Latest Year: 2025

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