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Notodontidae : Notodontinae

Coxcomb Prominent

PTILODON capucina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Description
Wingspan: 35-40mm
Worldwide Distribution: Found throughout the Palearctic Region
UK Distribution: Fairly common throughout Great Britain
UK Conservation Status -
  • Common = >300 10Km Squares
European Conservation Status -
  • Least Concern
Original Species Name:-
  • Phalaena capucina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Type Species - Ptilodon
  • Phalaena camelina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Type locality -
  • Europe
Flight Period: Southern Britain-April to June & July to early September-two generations : Far North-May to July-single generation
Habitat: Woodland : Gardens : Parks
Similar Species -
  • Maple Prominent Ptilodon cucullina ([Denis & Schiffermüller],1775)
Larva: Viewed from side-A yellow lateral line passses trough the spriacles which are highlighted with small red markings. Below this line the larva is dark green and above is dark green slowly changing to white near the top of the larva. Viewed on top-larva is white with a dark green dorsum line and two adajacent red "horns" positioned at the penultimate abdominal segment at the rear of the larva.
Pupa: Pupates in a cocoon underground
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: The moth forewings are ruddy-brown with buff coloured hindwings. The hindwings have a dark brom patch at the tornus with two parallel short buff coloured streaks and two ruddy-brown spots(see photos 1,3 & 5.
The Maple Prominent is the closest similar species but has far less ruddy-brown on the forewings as well as a white patch near the termen.

The moth is a visitor to the light trap albeit in small numbers.
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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.
  • Tiliaceae - Lime - Linden Family
  • Ulmaceae - Elm Family 
    • Ulmus laevis - European White Elm
      • Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
Larval Food Plants
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Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
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Lepidoptera
Noctuoidea
Notodontidae
Notodontinae
Notodontini
PTILODON Hübner 1822
Ptilodon capucina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Phalaena camelina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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PHALAENA capucina (Linnaeus, 1758)
= Ptilodon capucinus Linnaeus, 1758
= Phalaena camelina Linnaeus, 1758
= Ptilodon nordlandica Strand, 1901
= Ptilodon uniformis Rangnow, 1935
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Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : Title Page : : p.507 - n.55
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Europe
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P.c.giraffina Hübner, 1822-from Brown-Red to Black
P.c.pallida Maréchal, 1911-from Brown-Red to Yellow-Ochre