Species Details

ABH: 73.163

BF: 2322

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Xyleninae

Taxon: Apamea lithoxylaea

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Light Arches

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats, including calcareous grassland, woodland rides and gardens throughout the British Isles. Has been compared to Reddish Light Arches A. sublustris, but Light Arches appears lighter and better marked in comparison. Larva feeds on flowers and seeds of Annual Meadow-grass and other grasses.

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: 44 — 50 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 1 Jun (2009) — 13 Aug (1985)

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

Foodplant: Gramineae.

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/apamea-lithoxylaea/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 569

Individuals: 197

Earliest Year: 1904

Latest Year: 2024

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