Ypsolophidae : Ypsolophinae
Ypsolopha mucronella
YPSOLOPHSA mucronella (Scopoli, 1763)
Ypsolopha mucronella
YPSOLOPHSA mucronella (Scopoli, 1763)
Life Cycle Guide - Adult Only
Description
Vernacular Name: Spindle Smudge
Wingspan: 26-33mm
Worldwide Distribution: Central & Southern Europe : Siberia : Japan
UK Distribution: Southern England
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Woodland : Scrub on calcareous soils
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Hibernates as imago
Observations: The forewing of this moth is long and pointed at the apex.The moth is buff coloured with a dark brown or blackish streak from the base torwards the tornus in extreme examples.Below this streak the moth is almost white with feint venation. There are a single black spot above and below the streak. The antennae face forwards in a V like formation.
The moth is attracted to light.
Wingspan: 26-33mm
Worldwide Distribution: Central & Southern Europe : Siberia : Japan
UK Distribution: Southern England
UK Conservation Status -
- Local = 101 - 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Phalaena mucronella (Scopoli, 1763)
- Phalaena sylvella (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Not Specified
Habitat: Woodland : Scrub on calcareous soils
Similar Species -
- Ypsolopha nemorella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Overwinters as: Hibernates as imago
Observations: The forewing of this moth is long and pointed at the apex.The moth is buff coloured with a dark brown or blackish streak from the base torwards the tornus in extreme examples.Below this streak the moth is almost white with feint venation. There are a single black spot above and below the streak. The antennae face forwards in a V like formation.
The moth is attracted 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.
- Celastraceae - Staff Vine : Bittersweet Family
- Euonymus europaeus - Spindle Tree
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Yponomeutoidea Ypsolophidae Ypsolphinae YPSOLOPHA Latreille 1796 Ypsolopha mucronella (Scopoli, 1763) - Phalaena sylvella (Linnaeus, 1767) - PHALAENA mucronella (Scopoli, 1763) = Phalaena caudella Linnaeus, 1767 - Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliæ indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana. - pp. [1-35], 1-420, [1]. Vindobonae. (Trattner) : Title Page : p.250 -n.643 - No Specified |