Species Details

ABH: 70.277

BF: 1955

Family: Geometridae

Subfamily: Ennominae

Taxon: Cabera pusaria

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Common White Wave

Account: Common in woodland, scrub and gardens throughout the British Isles. The main confusion species is Common Wave C. exanthemata, in which cross-lines are brown and curved. Larva feeds on Downy and Silver Birch, Alder and Sallow, over-wintering as a pupa.

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: 32 — 35 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 26 Apr (2011) — 5 Sep (2014)

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

Foodplant: Betula sp. (a birch), Polyphagous.

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/cabera-pusaria/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1238

Individuals: 1704

Earliest Year: 1893

Latest Year: 2025

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