Species Details

ABH: 70.025

BF: 1692

Family: Geometridae

Subfamily: Sterrhinae

Taxon: Scopula immutata

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Lesser Cream Wave

Account: Local in damp grassland, marshes and other damp areas throughout much of England and Wales Similar to Cream Wave S. floslactata, but smaller. Larva feeds on Meadowsweet and Common Valerian.

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: 24 — 27 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 29 Jun (1994) — 16 Aug (1986)

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

Foodplant: Filipendula ulmaria (Meadowsweet), Valeriana officinalis (Common Valerian).

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: 2 — Care needed to identify 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/scopula-immutata/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 53

Individuals: 26

Earliest Year: 1930

Latest Year: 2018

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