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Noctuidae : Xyleninae

Haworth's Minor

CELAENA haworthii (Curtis, 1829)
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Kind permission - © Tim Norriss
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Description
Wingspan: 25 - 30mm
Worldwide Distribution: N & C Europe - including Austria,Belgium,Britain,Czech Republic,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,France,Germany,
Ireland,Latvia,Lithuanis,Ireland,Norway,Poland,Russia - not South,Slovakia,Sweden,The Netherlands to Siberia and Far East
UK Distribution: SW England,S Wales,most of Midlands,E England,East Anglia - fens,Hampshire - Test Valley & Itchen - very local : N Wales,N Midlands,N England,Isle of Man,Scotland - fairly well distributed : Ireland - local : Channel Isles - Jersey - recorded once
UK Conservation Status -
  • Local = 101 - 300  10km squares
  • BAP : 2007 - Priority Species
  • NERC S.41 : 2008 (England) & NERC S.42 : 2009 (Wales) - Species "of principle importance for the purpose of conserving biodiversity"
  • Northern Ireland : 2010 - Priority Species
European Conservation Status -
  • Least Concern
Original Species Name -
  • Apamea haworthii Curtis, 1829
Type Species - Celaena
  • Apamea haworthii Curtis, 1829
Type Locality -
  • England - Whittlesea Mere; Winder Mere
Flight Period: South - July - September : Elsewhere - August - September
Habitat: Boggy Moorland : Fens : Marshes
Similar Species -
  • None
Larva: The 20mm final instar larva is purplish brown with fine whitish dorsal and subdorsal lines. The pinacula are small and blackish. Blackish marks along side of body. Head is brown.
Pupa: Pupates in a cocoon on the ground
Overwinters as: Ovum
Observations: The moth is fairly unmistakable with reddish brown or purplish brown forewings with prominent orbicular spots and reniform stigmata,which has two white streaks emanating in one corner and finishing at approximately the terminal line with another short white line facing basally. These markings are diagnostic for this moth.
The forewing is fairly blunt with a very straight termen and slightly rounded costa.

Individuals from southern England on average are larger whilst individuals from the Norfolk Broads are brightly marked.

The moth is attracted to light,sugar and flowers.
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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.
  • Cyperaceae - Sedge Family
  • Juncaceae - The Reed Family
    • Luzula campestris - Field Wood-rush
  • Iridaceae - Iris Family
    • Iris pseudacorus - Yellow Flag
    • Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families 
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Type Locality:
Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
Hexapoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuoidea
Xylenidae
Noctuinae
Apameini
CELAENA Stephens 1829
Celaena haworthii (Curtis, 1829)
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Apamea haworthii Curtis, 1829
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APAMEA haworthii Curtis, 1829
= Celaena hibernica Stephens, 1829
= Celaena lancea Stephens, 1829
= Agrotis erupta Germar, [1842]
= Gortyna morio Eversmann, 1843
= Oligia havorthi Hampson, 1908
= Oligia haworthii sachalinensis Matsumura, 1925
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Curtis, 1829 - British Entomology 6:Title Page :  page. 260 : plate 260
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England - Whittlesea Mere; Winder Mere