Species Details

ABH: 72.016

BF: 2027

Family: Erebidae

Subfamily: Lymantriinae

Taxon: Dicallomera fascelina

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Dark Tussock

Account: Local on heathland, moorland, sand-dunes and shingle beaches, discontinuously in southern and north-western England, and eastern Scotland Unmistakable. Larva feeds on Heather, Broom, Creeping Willow, Bramble and Hawthorn.

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: 40 — 53 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 3 Jul (1963) — 21 Aug (1983)

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

Foodplant: Calluna sp., Crataegus sp., Cytisus sp., 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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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/dicallomera-fascelina/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 95

Individuals: 90

Earliest Year: 1921

Latest Year: 2013

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