Noctuidae : Acontiinae
Spotted Sulphur
ACONTIA (Emmelia) trabealis (Scopoli, 1763)
Spotted Sulphur
ACONTIA (Emmelia) trabealis (Scopoli, 1763)
Kind permission - © Tim Norriss
Life Cycle Guide - Europe
Description
Wingspan: 23 - 25mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Ireland,Madeira)
UK Distribution: Extinct in British Is.
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Dry Sandy Areas : Heathland : Roadside Verges : Fallow Fields
Similar Species -
Pupa: Pupates in cocoon for overwintering
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: Sadly the moth is now extinct in this country, having formally been resident in the Breckland district of East Anglia and Kent it has not been seen since the 1960's.
Migrants have occasionally occurred on the south coast, once in Exeter and a further specimen caught to light in Swanage Dorset on 20th August 1947.
The extinction of the species has been attributed to ecological changes due to agricultural intensification in the Brecklands as well as large scale planting of trees.
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Ireland,Madeira)
UK Distribution: Extinct in British Is.
UK Conservation Status -
- Presumed Extinct
- Least Concern
- Phalaena trabealis (Scopoli, 1763)
- Noctua solaris Schiffermüller, 1775
- "Carniola"
Habitat: Dry Sandy Areas : Heathland : Roadside Verges : Fallow Fields
Similar Species -
- None
Pupa: Pupates in cocoon for overwintering
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: Sadly the moth is now extinct in this country, having formally been resident in the Breckland district of East Anglia and Kent it has not been seen since the 1960's.
Migrants have occasionally occurred on the south coast, once in Exeter and a further specimen caught to light in Swanage Dorset on 20th August 1947.
The extinction of the species has been attributed to ecological changes due to agricultural intensification in the Brecklands as well as large scale planting of trees.
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Larval Food Plants Worldwide
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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.
- Convolvulaceae - Bindweed - Morning Glory Family
- Convolvulus arvensis - Field Bindweed
- Convolvulus arvensis - Field Bindweed
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuoidea Noctuidae Acontiinae ACONTIA Ochsenheimer 1816 Acontia Ochsenheimer 1816 Acontia ( Emmelia) trabealis (Scopoli, 1763) - Noctua solaris Schiffermüller, 1775 - PHALEANA trabealis (Scopoli, 1763) = Emmelia trabealis Scopoli, 1763 = Phalaena trabealis Scopoli, 1763 = Phalaena arabica Hufnagel, 1766 = Phalaena Pyralis sulphuralis Linnaeus, 1767 = Noctua sulphurea [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Tinea arlequinetta Geoffroy, 1785 = Phalaena Noctua trabeata Borkhausen, 1790 = Bombyx lugubris Fabricius, 1793 = Erastria pardalina Walker, 1865 - Ioannis Antonii Scopoli Med. Doct. S.C.R. ... Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates : methodo Linnaeana by Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio, 1723-1788 : Title Page : p.240 - n.610 - "Carniola" |