Depressariidae : Depressariinae
Agonopterix heracliana
AGONOPTERIX heracliana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agonopterix heracliana
AGONOPTERIX heracliana (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Vernacular Name: Common Flat-body
Wingspan: 15-21mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - (excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Bulgaria,Corsica,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Greece,Malta,Sardinia,Sicily & Slovenia) : N Africa : Near East
UK Distribution: Common throughout most of Great Britain
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Found in most habitats
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Adult
Observations: The forewing is usually pale brown to greyish brown with darker speckling,sometimes tinged reddish,whilst the basal area is lighter and extends along the costa.There are a pair of black spots at approximately one third with the lower spot being edged in white. Another white dot just before half and another just after half way,both edged darker.
The similar species A.ciliella is larger with five distinct lines in the hindwing pink-tinged cilia,with the underside of the moth also strongly tinged with pink.This moth may have one distinct and up to four faint cilia lines.
Alternative to this to determine the species would require genitalia examination.
Moth is attracted to house and moth trap lights.
Wingspan: 15-21mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - (excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Bulgaria,Corsica,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Greece,Malta,Sardinia,Sicily & Slovenia) : N Africa : Near East
UK Distribution: Common throughout most of Great Britain
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = > 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Phalaena heracliana (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Tinea signella Hübner, 1796
- Not Specified
Habitat: Found in most habitats
Similar Species -
- Agonopterix ciliella (Stainton, 1849)
Overwinters as: Adult
Observations: The forewing is usually pale brown to greyish brown with darker speckling,sometimes tinged reddish,whilst the basal area is lighter and extends along the costa.There are a pair of black spots at approximately one third with the lower spot being edged in white. Another white dot just before half and another just after half way,both edged darker.
The similar species A.ciliella is larger with five distinct lines in the hindwing pink-tinged cilia,with the underside of the moth also strongly tinged with pink.This moth may have one distinct and up to four faint cilia lines.
Alternative to this to determine the species would require genitalia examination.
Moth is attracted to house and moth trap lights.
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.
- Apiaceae - Umbelliferae - Umbellifer Family
- Aegopodium podagraria - Ground-Elder - Bishop's Goutweed
- Angelica sylvestris - Wild Angelica
- Apium graveolens - Wild Celery
- Chaerophyllum temulentum - Rough Chervil
- Conium maculatum - Hemlock
- Conopodium majus - Pignut
- Daucus carota - Wild Carrot (UK)
- Heracleum sphondylium - Hogweed
- Ligusticum scoticum - Scottish Lovage
- Meum athamanticum - Spignel
- Myrrhis odorata - Sweet Cicily,Anise
- Pastinaca sativa - Wild Parsnip
- Smyrnium olusatrum - Alexanders
- Silaum silaus - Pepper Saxifrage
- Sison amomum - Bastard Stone-Parsley
- Torilis japonica - Upright Hedge Parsley, Erect hedgeparsley
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Gelechioidea Depressariidae Depressariinae Depressariini AGONOPTERIX Hübner, [1825] Agonopterix heracliana (Linnaeus, 1758) - Tinea signella Hübner, 1796 - PHALAENA heracliana (Linnaeus, 1758) = Agonopterix punctata (Clerck, 1759) = Pyralis applana Fabricius, 1777 = Agonopterix vinalis (V Terraillers, 1789) = Tinea cicutella Hübner, 1796 = Tinea heraclella Fabricius, 1798 = Tinea applanella Fabricius, 1798 = Depressaria heraclei Haworth, 1811 = Agonopterix applanella FIscher Of Röslerstamm 1838 = Agonopterix uniformata (Dufrane ,1949) = Depressaria heracliella Doubleday, 1859 - Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : Title Page : p.532 - n.225 - Not Specified |