Species Details

ABH: 73.141

BF: 2371

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Xyleninae

Taxon: Archanara dissoluta

Authority: (Treitschke, 1825)

Vernacular: Brown-veined Wainscot

Account: Local in reed-beds, marshes, river-banks, fens and gardens throughout much of south-east England, discontinuously north to Lancashire and north-west Wales The main confusion species is White-mantled Wainscot A. neurica, but A. dissoluta has small black central spot on the underside of both hindwing and forewing, absent in A. neurica. Larva feeds on Common Reed, over-wintering as an egg and pupating low down in the stem of the foodplant, head downwards.

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: 27 — 33 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 8 Jul (1984) — 28 Aug (2018)

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

Foodplant: Phragmites australis (Common Reed).

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/archanara-dissoluta/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 41

Individuals: 37

Earliest Year: 1952

Latest Year: 2021

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