Species Details

ABH: 63.025

BF: 1376

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Pyraustinae

Taxon: Anania hortulata

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Small Magpie

Account: Common wherever there are nettles, throughout southern England and locally in northern England and southern Scotland. One of the most distinctive and easily recognised British species of micro-moth. Larva feeds on both perennial and annual species of nettle, Stinging Nettle and Small Nettle.

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: 33 — 35 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 20 Apr (2011) — 14 Aug (2020)

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

Foodplant:

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/anania-hortulata/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 407

Individuals: 216

Earliest Year: 1975

Latest Year: 2025

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