Species Details

ABH: 73.322

BF: 2085

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Noctuinae

Taxon: Agrotis vestigialis

Authority: (Hufnagel, 1766)

Vernacular: Archer's Dart

Account: Local on sand-dunes, all around the coasts of the British Isles, and on heaths inland in southern England The most distinctive and easily recognised of the Agrostis species. Larva feeds on herbaceous plants such as Lady's Bedstraw, Hedge Bedstraw, Heath Bedstraw and Greater Stitchwort.

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: 30 — 40 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 2 Jul (1961) — 4 Sep (2006)

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

Foodplant: Gramineae, Polyphagous.

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

Click here to view the full geology map of Surrey.

Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/agrotis-vestigialis/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 89

Individuals: 17

Earliest Year: 1924

Latest Year: 2014

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