Notondontidae : Pygaerinae
Chocolate-tip
CLOSTERA curtula Linnaeus, 1758
Chocolate-tip
CLOSTERA curtula Linnaeus, 1758
Life Cycle Guide
Description
Wingspan: 27 - 35mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - Mongolia : E Asia
UK Distribution: Well distributed in southern,south-east and central England and E Anglia : North and west England - more local : Scotland - local : Channel Isles - rare
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Woodland : Scrub : Poplar plantations : Gardens : Hedgerows
Similar Species -
Pupa: Pupates overwinter in a rolled leaf of the host plant
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: Certainly one of our most easily identified moth that lives up to its name with a chocolate coloured patch from the forewing apex, abruptly stopping at the postmedial cross line.
The moth is further indentified by the abdominal anal tuft which is also tipped chocolate colour along with the cenral thorax streak and reddish brown feet.The forewing is greyish brown with clearly defined lighter traverse lines.
Second generation moths are generally much lighter.
The moth is extremely inactive during the day but is attracted to the light where it will appear at the moth trap,usually late evening in small numbers.
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - Mongolia : E Asia
UK Distribution: Well distributed in southern,south-east and central England and E Anglia : North and west England - more local : Scotland - local : Channel Isles - rare
UK Conservation Status -
- Local = 101 - 300 10Km Squares
- Least Concern
- Phalaena Curtula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Phalaena Curtula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Europe - locality unknown
Habitat: Woodland : Scrub : Poplar plantations : Gardens : Hedgerows
Similar Species -
- Small Chocolate-tip Clostera pigra (Hufnagel, 1766)
- Scarce Chocolate-tip Clostera anachoreta ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Pupa: Pupates overwinter in a rolled leaf of the host plant
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: Certainly one of our most easily identified moth that lives up to its name with a chocolate coloured patch from the forewing apex, abruptly stopping at the postmedial cross line.
The moth is further indentified by the abdominal anal tuft which is also tipped chocolate colour along with the cenral thorax streak and reddish brown feet.The forewing is greyish brown with clearly defined lighter traverse lines.
Second generation moths are generally much lighter.
The moth is extremely inactive during the day but is attracted to the light where it will appear at the moth trap,usually late evening in small numbers.
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.
- Salicaceae - Willow Family
- Populus alba - White Poplar
- Populus balsamifera - Balsam Poplar
- Populus tremula - Aspen Poplar
- Salix alba - White Willow
- Salix aurita - Eared Sallow
- Salix bebbiana - Beak - Bebb Willow
- Salix caprea - Goat Willow
- Salix cinerea - Grey Willow
- Salix fragilis - Crack Willow
- Salix phylicifolia -Tea-leaved Willow
- Salix myrsinifolia - Dark-leaved Willow
- Salix repens - Creeping Willow
- Salix starkiana - Pale Willow
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
Subkingdom: Phylum: Subphylum: Class: Order: Superfamily: Family: Subfamily: Genus: Accepted Species Name: Type Species - CLOSTERA: Original Species Name: Species Name: Nominotypical Subspecies: Literary Ref: Type Locality: Subspecies: |
Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuoidea Notodontidae Pygaerinae CLOSTERA Samouelle, 1819 Clostera curtula (Linnaeus, 1758) - Phalaena curtula (Linnaeus, 1758) - PHALAENA curtula (Linnaeus, 1758) = Clostera reclusa Schiffermüller 1776 = Clostera alticaudaalba Retzius, 1783 - Phalaena curtula curtula (Linnaeus, 1758) - Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : Title Page : p.503 - n.34 - Europe - locality unknown - C.c.curtula Linnaeus, 1758 - Nominate subspecies C.c.canescens Graeser, 1982 |