Pyralidae : Phycitinae
Acrobasis suavella
ACROBASIS suavella (Zincken, 1818)
Acrobasis suavella
ACROBASIS suavella (Zincken, 1818)
Life Cycle Guide
Description
Vernacular Name: Thicket Knot-horn
Wingspan: 23-25mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less Ireland,Latvia,Lithuania,Norway,Portugal,Slovenia & some Mediterranean Islands : eastwards to Russia : Introduced to British Columbia - Canada
UK Distribution: Local in southern England and south Wales.
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Blackthorn thickets in open country : Downland : Coastal Habitats
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: Similar moth are smaller than this moth. A.advenella does not have the dark apial patch and whitish costal patch and the discal spots are aligned with the tornus. A.marmorea is the smallest of these species and has a white patch on the dorsum and the discal spots are usually joined.
This moth has white - grey forewing with coppery red areas especially towards dorsum.The median area is whitish and dark grey with two black discal spots. The antemedian line is oblique at the costa before straightening towards the dorsum. The postmedian line id nearly straight. The is a shaded dark apial streak.
The moth is attracted to light.
Wingspan: 23-25mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less Ireland,Latvia,Lithuania,Norway,Portugal,Slovenia & some Mediterranean Islands : eastwards to Russia : Introduced to British Columbia - Canada
UK Distribution: Local in southern England and south Wales.
UK Conservation Status -
- Local = 101 - 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Phycis suavella (Zincken, 1818)
- Tinea consociella Hübner, 1813
- Germany
Habitat: Blackthorn thickets in open country : Downland : Coastal Habitats
Similar Species -
- Acrobasis advenella (Zincken, 1818)
- Acrobasis marmorea (Haworth, 1811)
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: Similar moth are smaller than this moth. A.advenella does not have the dark apial patch and whitish costal patch and the discal spots are aligned with the tornus. A.marmorea is the smallest of these species and has a white patch on the dorsum and the discal spots are usually joined.
This moth has white - grey forewing with coppery red areas especially towards dorsum.The median area is whitish and dark grey with two black discal spots. The antemedian line is oblique at the costa before straightening towards the dorsum. The postmedian line id nearly straight. The is a shaded dark apial streak.
The moth is attracted to light.
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.
- Rosaceae - The Rose Family
- Crataegus laevigata - Midland Hawthorn
- Crataegus monogyna - Hawthorn
- Prunus spinosa - Blackthorn - Sloe(Britain)
- Sorbus aucuparia - Mountain Ash - Rowan
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Pyraloidea Pyralidae Phycitinae Phycitini ACROBASIS Zeller 1839 Acrobasis suavella (Zincken,1818) - Tinea consociella Hübner, 1813 - PHYCIS suavella (Zincken, 1818) = Trachycera suavella (Zincken, 1818) = Phycis suavella Zincken, 1818 = Phycita porphyrea Stephens, 1834 = Mineola supposita Heinrich, 1940 = Rhodophaea suavella - ACROBASIS Zeller, 1839 = Conobathra Meyrick 1886 = Cyphita Roesler 1971 = Rhodophaeopsis Amsel 1950 = Trachycera Ragonot 1893 = Catacrobasis Gozmány 1958 = Cyprusia Amsel 1958 - Germar & Zincken - Mag.der Ent. 3: Title Page : p.140 - n.18 - Phycis suavella - Germany |