Species Details

ABH: 63.023

BF: 1382

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Pyraustinae

Taxon: Anania verbascalis

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Wood Sage Pearl

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in open areas where the foodplant grows, such as heaths and shingle beaches, in parts of southern England The species has a characteristic bronze coloration which readily distinguishes it [Goater]. Larva feeds on Wood Sage.

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: 22 — 26 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 19 May (2020) — 12 Jul (2007)

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

Foodplant: Teucrium scorodonia (Wood Sage), Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein).

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-verbascalis/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 4

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2007

Latest Year: 2020

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