Species Details

ABH: 70.263

BF: 1939

Family: Geometridae

Subfamily: Ennominae

Taxon: Cleora cinctaria

=Cleora cinctaria bowesi

=Cleora cinctaria cinctaria

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Ringed Carpet

Account: Nationally scarce (Na) on damp heathland in southern England (Hampshire and adjoining counties), and in bogs and mosses in Scotland and northern England (ssp. bowesi) Fairly distinctive, with very straight costa and, often, a small pale elongated discal spot. Larva feeds on Silver Birch, Downy Birch, Bilberry, Bell Heather and Cross-leaved Heath, 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: 36 — 42 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 16 May (1931) — 16 May (1931)

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

Foodplant: Betula sp. (a birch), Erica sp., Myrica gale (Bog-myrtle), Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry).

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

No distribution map – Sensitive species!

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/cleora-cinctaria/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 2

Individuals: 2

Earliest Year: 1931

Latest Year: 1932

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