Species Details

ABH: 63.024

BF: 1381

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Pyraustinae

Taxon: Anania funebris

Authority: (Ström, 1768)

Vernacular: White-spotted Sable

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) along woodland rides, woodland edges and on limestone pavements and cliffs in parts of England and Wales, rare in Scotland and Ireland, a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan Unmistakable. Larva feeds on flowers of Goldenrod.

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: 20 — 23 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 15 May (2004) — 17 Jun (1985)

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

Foodplant: Genista tinctoria (Dyer's Greenweed), Solidago virga-aurea.

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/anania-funebris/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 5

Individuals: 2

Earliest Year: 1985

Latest Year: 2005

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