Species Details

ABH: 71.028

BF: 2017

Family: Notodontidae

Subfamily: Pygaerinae

Taxon: Clostera pigra

Authority: (Hufnagel, 1766)

Vernacular: Small Chocolate-tip

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in fens, marshes, damp heathland, mosses and moorland in southern England and, very sparsely, in the remainder of the British Isles Differs from both Scarce Chocolate-tip C. anachoreta and Chocolate-tip C. curtula in smaller size and rather ill-defined chocolate-brown apical patch. Larva feeds on Creeping Willow, Eared Willow and Aspen, 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: 24 — 28 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 23 Apr (1959) — 4 Aug (1970)

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

Foodplant: Populus tremula (Aspen), Salix aurita (Eared Willow), Salix repens (Creeping Willow), Salix sp. (a sallow).

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/clostera-pigra/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 65

Individuals: 10

Earliest Year: 1899

Latest Year: 2015

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