Depressariidae : Depressariinae
Agonopterix umbellana
AGONOPTERIX umbellana (Fabricius, 1794
Agonopterix umbellana
AGONOPTERIX umbellana (Fabricius, 1794
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Vernacular Name: Gorse Flat-body
Wingspan: 19-24mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - including (Britain,Channel Is.,Denmark,France,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Portugal,Spain,Switzerland, The Netherlands)
UK Distribution: Locally distributed throughout British Isles : most frequent in coastal localities
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Heathland : Scrub : Waste Ground : Coastal Cliffs : Dunes
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Adult
Observations: An easily recognised micro with pale brown forewing and darker brown veins laterally with a termen highlighted with darker brown dots or dashes and two brown lines outside of the dots.
The moth is locally spread across Britain on Heathland and coastal habitats appearing most months of the year,hibernating overwinter and reappearing in the spring.
Wingspan: 19-24mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - including (Britain,Channel Is.,Denmark,France,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Portugal,Spain,Switzerland, The Netherlands)
UK Distribution: Locally distributed throughout British Isles : most frequent in coastal localities
UK Conservation Status -
- Local = 101 - 300 10km squares
- Least Concern - west and south west Europe only
- Pyralis umbellana (Fabricius, 1794)
- Tinea signella Hübner, 1796
- Not Specified
Habitat: Heathland : Scrub : Waste Ground : Coastal Cliffs : Dunes
Similar Species -
- None
Overwinters as: Adult
Observations: An easily recognised micro with pale brown forewing and darker brown veins laterally with a termen highlighted with darker brown dots or dashes and two brown lines outside of the dots.
The moth is locally spread across Britain on Heathland and coastal habitats appearing most months of the year,hibernating overwinter and reappearing in the spring.
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.
- Fabaceae - Leguminosea - The Pulse - Bean - Pea - Legume Family
- Genista anglica - Petty Whin - Needle Furze - Needle Whin
- Genista pilosa - Hairy Greenweed
- Ulex europaeus - Gorse - Furze - Whin
- Ulex gallii - Western Gorse
- Ulex minor - Dwarf Gorse - Dwark Furze
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 umbellana (Fabricius, 1794) - Tinea signella Hübner, 1796 - PYRALIS umbellana (Fabricius, 1794) = Depressaria ulicetella Stainton 1849 = Depressaria lennigiella Fuchs 1880 = Depressaria prostratella Constant 1884 - Entomologia systemanica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, loci, observationibus, descriptionibus 3 (2): 1-349. Hafniae (CG Proft, Ph. Et Soc.). - Digital TechniSat der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munich: Title Page : p.286 - n.177 - Not Specified |