Species Details

ABH: 70.056

BF: 1736

Family: Geometridae

Subfamily: Larentiinae

Taxon: Catarhoe cuculata

Authority: (Hufnagel, 1767)

Vernacular: Royal Mantle

Account: Local in calcareous grassland, chalk downland, quarries, embankments, hedgerows, woodland rides and sea cliffs throughout much of southern England, rarely northwards to southern Scotland Unmistakable. Larva feeds on Lady's Bedstraw and Hedge Bedstraw, 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: 26 — 30 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 8 Jun (1973) — 24 Aug (2019)

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

Foodplant: Galium sp.

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/catarhoe-cuculata/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 89

Individuals: 42

Earliest Year: 1878

Latest Year: 2020

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