Tortricidae : Olethreutinae
Lathronympha strigana
LATHRONYMPHA strigana (Fabricius, 1775)
Lathronympha strigana
LATHRONYMPHA strigana (Fabricius, 1775)
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Vernacular Name: Red Piercer
Wingspan: 14-18mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less Croatia,Ukraine and some Mediterranean Islands : Near East : Eastern Palearctic
UK Distribution: Southern England and Wales - locally common : further north including Scotland - local
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Chalk and Limestone grasslands : Open Woodland
Similar Species -
Pupa: Pupate in a cocoon on the ground
Observations: A very distinctive micro with its orangy brown or suffused brown forewing.The moth is also distinctive in not having any cross lines and with silvery and black short apial streaks.The ocellus is close to the tornus edged with greyish metallic markings and 2 or 3 black dashes. At rest the forewings are folded at about half way between costa and dorsum.
Moth flies at sunrise and again in the evening and is attracted to light.
Wingspan: 14-18mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less Croatia,Ukraine and some Mediterranean Islands : Near East : Eastern Palearctic
UK Distribution: Southern England and Wales - locally common : further north including Scotland - local
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = > 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Pyralis strigana (Fabricius, 1775)
- Tortrix hypericana Hübner, 1799
- Sweden ("Svecia")
Habitat: Chalk and Limestone grasslands : Open Woodland
Similar Species -
- None
Pupa: Pupate in a cocoon on the ground
Observations: A very distinctive micro with its orangy brown or suffused brown forewing.The moth is also distinctive in not having any cross lines and with silvery and black short apial streaks.The ocellus is close to the tornus edged with greyish metallic markings and 2 or 3 black dashes. At rest the forewings are folded at about half way between costa and dorsum.
Moth flies at sunrise and again in the evening and 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
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
- Cannabidaceae - Hemp/Hop Family
- Cannabis sativa - Hemp
- Hypericaceae - St John's Wort Family
- Hypericum perforatum - St John's Wort
- Fabaceae - Leguminosea - The Pulse - Bean - Pea - Legume Family
- Lotus corniculatus - Bird's-foot Trefoil - Common Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Medicago sativa - Alfalfa
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Tortricoidea Tortricidae Olethreutinae Grapholitini LATHRONYMPHA Meyrick, 1926 Lathronympha strigana (Fabricius, 1775) - Tortrix hypericana Hübner, 1799 - PYRALIS strigana (Fabricius, 1775) = Tortrix hypericana Hübner, 1796/99 = Phalaena politana Schiffermüller, 1776 = Phalaena pusillana Schiffermüller, 1776 - "Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibvs, observationibvs. - Flensbvrgi, Lipsiae. in officina libraria Kort : Fabricius, Johann Christian 1775 : Title Page : p.654 - n.53 - Sweden ("Svecia") |