Ypsolophidae : Ypsolophinae
Ypsolopha parenthesella
YPSOLOPHA parenthesella (Linnaeus, 1761)
Ypsolopha parenthesella
YPSOLOPHA parenthesella (Linnaeus, 1761)
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Vernacular Name: White-shouldered Smudge
Wingspan: 15-19mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - ( Excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary is.,Crete,Cyprus,Madeira,Malta,Portugal,Sardinia,Sicily,Slovenia and Ukraine) ; Japan : North east China : Asia Minor : mid east Asia
UK Distribution: Common throughout most of British Isles
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Woodland
Similar Species -
Observations: The moths forewings are orangey brown or light brown, sometimes unicolorous, with a white wedge shaped costal streak which which extends to half the length of forewing. The unicolorous form can be confused with the same form of Y.ustella but does not have the white form with coastal streak. Concolorous forms of Y.ustella have same colour head,whereas this moth has a white or pale yellowish brown head with short whites streak behind eyes and white thorax.
Moth is attracted to light.
Wingspan: 15-19mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - ( Excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary is.,Crete,Cyprus,Madeira,Malta,Portugal,Sardinia,Sicily,Slovenia and Ukraine) ; Japan : North east China : Asia Minor : mid east Asia
UK Distribution: Common throughout most of British Isles
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = > 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Phalaena (Tinea) parenthesella (Linnaeus, 1761)
- Phalaena sylvella (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Sweden, Stockholm
Habitat: Woodland
Similar Species -
- Ypsolopha ustella (Clerck, 1759)
Observations: The moths forewings are orangey brown or light brown, sometimes unicolorous, with a white wedge shaped costal streak which which extends to half the length of forewing. The unicolorous form can be confused with the same form of Y.ustella but does not have the white form with coastal streak. Concolorous forms of Y.ustella have same colour head,whereas this moth has a white or pale yellowish brown head with short whites streak behind eyes and white thorax.
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.
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.
- Betulaceae - The Birch Family
- Carpinus betulus - Hornbeam
- Corylus avellana - Hazel
- Fagaceae - Oak - Chestnut - Beech Family
- Fagus crenata - Japanese Beech
- Quercus acutissima - Sawthorn Oak
- Quercus salicina - No Common Name
- Quercus serrata - Korean Oak
- Quercus variabilis - Chinese Cork Oak
- Myricaceae - Wax-myrtle Family
- Myrica gale - Bog Myrtle
- Myrica gale - Bog Myrtle
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 parenthesella (Linnaeus, 1761) - Phalaena sylvella (Linnaeus, 1767) - PHALAENA (Tinea) parenthesella (Linnaeus, 1761) = Alucita costella Fabricius, 1775 - Fauna Suecica (Edn 1-2) : Title Page : p.367 - n.1435 - Sweden, Stockholm |