Species Details

ABH: 32.016

BF: 696

Family: Depressariidae

Subfamily: Depressariinae

Taxon: Agonopterix propinquella

Authority: (Treitschke, 1835)

Vernacular: Black-spot Buff

Account: Local in waste ground and rough grassland throughout much of England, Wales, southern Scotland and southern Ireland The most likely confusion species is A. subpropinquella, which see for differences. Larva feeds on Creeping Thistle and Spear Thistle, living within a spun or rolled leaf.

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: 16 — 19 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 10 Mar (2007) — 10 Mar (2007)

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

Foodplant: Arctium sp. (a burdock), Cirsium sp.

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2007

Latest Year: 2007

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