Species Details

ABH: 73.055

BF: 2217

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Cuculliinae

Taxon: Cucullia asteris

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Star-wort

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) on saltmarshes, along the coasts of England and Wales, and inland, erratically, in woodland clearings, woodland rides and gardens in parts of southern England Larva feeds on flowers and leaves of Sea Wormwood and Goldenrod, 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: 45 — 52 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 14 Jun (1974) — 15 Aug (1972)

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

Foodplant: Aster tripolium (Sea Aster), Solidago virga-aurea.

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/cucullia-asteris/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 21

Individuals: 6

Earliest Year: 1842

Latest Year: 2002

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