Species Details

ABH: 19.014

BF: 476

Family: Glyphipterigidae

Subfamily: Acrolepiinae

Taxon: Acrolepia autumnitella

=Acrolepia pygmaeana

Authority: Curtis, 1838

Vernacular: Speckled Bittersweet Moth

Account: Common in hedgerows and waste ground throughout much of southern England, with records north to Lancashire Larva mines leaves of Woody Nightshade and Deadly Nightshade.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 11 — 13 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 15 Mar (2011) — 21 Dec (2009)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Atropa bella-donna, Solanum dulcamara (Bittersweet).

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/acrolepia-autumnitella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 64

Individuals: 4

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2024

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