Hepialidae
Orange Swift
TRIODIA sylvina (Linnaeus, 1761)
Orange Swift
TRIODIA sylvina (Linnaeus, 1761)
Life Cycle Guide
Description
Alternative Name: Orange Moth
Wingspan: Male : 32-39mm. : Female : 36-48mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Corsica,Crete,Cyprus,Ireland,Madeira,Malta & Slovenia)
UK Distribution: Resident-Common throughout England and Wales,Channel Isles, and up to the north of mainland Scotland.
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Gardens : Roadside Verges : Moorland : Woodland Rides : Grassy Places
Similar Species:-
Pupa: Pupates underground.
Overwinters as: Overwinters twice as a larva
Observations: A rudimentary moth with no mouth, depending on fat stored as a larva to sustain it through its final stage.
Male bright orange brown with two sets of continuous lines forming two"V" shapes when viewed from above. Female (Shown below) larger with dull brown background colour.
The short antennae of both sexes is pectinate (dentate) or saw toothed.(See photo 4)
Readily comes to light.
Wingspan: Male : 32-39mm. : Female : 36-48mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Corsica,Crete,Cyprus,Ireland,Madeira,Malta & Slovenia)
UK Distribution: Resident-Common throughout England and Wales,Channel Isles, and up to the north of mainland Scotland.
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = >300 10Km Squares
- Least Concern
- Phalaena sylvina Linnaeus, 1761
- Phalaena sylvina Linnaeus, 1761
- Sweden-Stockholm
Habitat: Gardens : Roadside Verges : Moorland : Woodland Rides : Grassy Places
Similar Species:-
- Common Swift Hepialus lupulinus Linnaeus, 1758
Pupa: Pupates underground.
Overwinters as: Overwinters twice as a larva
Observations: A rudimentary moth with no mouth, depending on fat stored as a larva to sustain it through its final stage.
Male bright orange brown with two sets of continuous lines forming two"V" shapes when viewed from above. Female (Shown below) larger with dull brown background colour.
The short antennae of both sexes is pectinate (dentate) or saw toothed.(See photo 4)
Readily comes to light.
Photo Gallery
Larval Food Plants Worldwide
Note - Plants hyperlinked in red below take the visitor to the relevant plant page on"Plants for a Future" website
where further information like photos,physical
characteristics,habitats,edible uses,medicinal
uses,cultivation,propagation,range,height etc. are clearly listed.
- Plant Families - in bold red below takes the visitor to the relevant "Lepi-plants" page where other butterflies & moths using the plants below are listed.
- Asteraceae - Compositae - Aster-Daisy - Sunflower Family
- Taraxacum officinale - Common Dandelion
- Boraginaceae - Borage - Forget-me-not Family
- Echium vulgare - Viper's Bugloss
- Cannabidaceae - Hemp - Hop Family
- Humulus lupulus - Hop
- Polygonaceae - Docks - Sorrels - Knotweeds - Smartweeds
- Rumex obtusifolius - Round-leaved Dock - Broad-leaved Dock
- Polypodiaceae - Fern Family
- Pteridium aquilinum - Bracken
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Hepialoidea Hepialidae TRIODIA Hübner, 1820 Triodia sylvina (Linnaeus, 1761) - Phalaena Sylvina (Linnaeus, 1761) - = PHALAENA (Noctua) sylvina Linnaeus 1761 = Hepialus sylvinus Linnaeus, 1761 = Bombyx hamma Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Bombyx flina Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Phalaena multicolor Fourcroy, 1785 = crux (Fabricius, 1787) = Hepialus angulatus Fabricius, 1781 = angulum (Villers, 1789) = fauna (Schrank, 1801) = Hepialus kruegeri Turati, 1909 = victoriae Petkoff, 1914 = androgynus Agenjo, 1942 = pardoi Agenjo, 1942 = alfaroi Agenjo, 1942 = laincalvo Agenjo, 1942 = Alphus sylvinus Linnaeus, 1761 - Fauna Suecica (Edn 2) : Title page : p.306 - n.1151 - Sweden-Stockholm - T.s.kruegeri Turati, 1909-Sicily |