Species Details

ABH: 32.007

BF: 701

Family: Depressariidae

Subfamily: Depressariinae

Taxon: Agonopterix ocellana

Authority: (Fabricius, 1775)

Vernacular: Red-eyed Buff

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats, including woodland, hedgerows, parks, gardens and at freshwater margins, throughout the British Isles Larva feeds on White Willow, Purple Willow, Osier, Goat Willow, Grey Willow, Eared Willow and Creeping Willow, living between leaves spun together with silk.

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: 19 — 23 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 25 Jan (2011) — 26 Oct (2010)

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

Foodplant: Salix sp. (a sallow).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/agonopterix-ocellana/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 36

Individuals: 11

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2025

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