Eribidae : Hypeninae
HYPENA lividalis
HYPENA (Hypena) lividalis Hübner, [1796]
HYPENA lividalis
HYPENA (Hypena) lividalis Hübner, [1796]
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Life Cycle Guide - Europe - Adult Only
Description
Suggested Vernacular Name: Chevron Snout
Wingspan: 19 -26mm
Worldwide Distribution -
Europe - The moth is present around the entire periphery of Iberia, including border with France, along the Mediterranean coastal band of France, the Islands of the Mediterranean, Italy, eastern side of Adriatic in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean Islands. Recently confirmed in Bulgaria.
World - circum tropical worldwide distribution
UK Distribution: British moth collected in Abbey Wood,south east London on the 9 November 2015 to light is only British record
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Dry Meadows : Walls growing host plant
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Adult
Observations: A recently reported new species to Great Britain, a single moth was collected using 250w MV lamp in Abbey Wood,south east London on the 9 November 2015.
The moth is present around the entire periphery of Iberia, including border with France, along the Mediterranean coastal band of France, the Islands of the Mediterranean, Italy, eastern side of Adriatic in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean Islands. Recently confirmed in Bulgaria.
The moth is recorded as a migrant as far north as Denmark where five have been recorded as it seems to be quickly expanding its range northwards.
Research suggests possible establishment along the milder micro-climates of the Thames estuary might be a possibility, like the many migrants before that are now established.
The moth is also described as an Afro-tropical species with mainly circum–tropical distribution,the photo below having been taken in Cuba.
Wingspan: 19 -26mm
Worldwide Distribution -
Europe - The moth is present around the entire periphery of Iberia, including border with France, along the Mediterranean coastal band of France, the Islands of the Mediterranean, Italy, eastern side of Adriatic in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean Islands. Recently confirmed in Bulgaria.
World - circum tropical worldwide distribution
UK Distribution: British moth collected in Abbey Wood,south east London on the 9 November 2015 to light is only British record
UK Conservation Status -
- Probable Primary Immigration
- Least Concern
- Pyralis lividalis Hübner, [1796]
- Phalaena proboscidalis Linnaeus 1758
- Europe
Habitat: Dry Meadows : Walls growing host plant
Similar Species -
- None
Overwinters as: Adult
Observations: A recently reported new species to Great Britain, a single moth was collected using 250w MV lamp in Abbey Wood,south east London on the 9 November 2015.
The moth is present around the entire periphery of Iberia, including border with France, along the Mediterranean coastal band of France, the Islands of the Mediterranean, Italy, eastern side of Adriatic in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean Islands. Recently confirmed in Bulgaria.
The moth is recorded as a migrant as far north as Denmark where five have been recorded as it seems to be quickly expanding its range northwards.
Research suggests possible establishment along the milder micro-climates of the Thames estuary might be a possibility, like the many migrants before that are now established.
The moth is also described as an Afro-tropical species with mainly circum–tropical distribution,the photo below having been taken in Cuba.
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.
- Urticaeae - Nettle Family
- Parietaria judaica - Pellitory Of The Wall, Upright pellitory
- Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
- Urticaeae - Urtica - Nettle
- Urticaeae - Urtica - Nettle
- Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
- Parietaria judaica - Pellitory Of The Wall, Upright pellitory
Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuoidea Erebidae Hypeninae HYPENA Schrank, 1802 Hypena Schrank, 1802 Hypena (Hypena) lividalis Hübner, [1796] - PHALAENA proboscidalis Linnaeus 1758 - PYRALIS lividalis Hübner, [1796] = Hypena simplicalis Zeller, 1852 = Hypena abjuralis Walker, [1859] = Hypena scissalis Walker, [1866] = Hypena perna Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 = Anespischetos bipartita Smith, 1900 = Ophiuche abjuralis = Ophiuche abzinalis = Hypena abjuralis Walker 1859 - Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge / errichtet von Jacob Hübner in Augsburg. By Hübner, Jacob, 1761-1826 : Lepidoptera V1: Pyralides 1 : p.2 - f.11 - Europe |
