Species Details

ABH: 72.044

BF: 2044

Family: Erebidae

Subfamily: Arctiinae

Taxon: Eilema griseola

=Eilema griseola ab. stramineola

Authority: (Hübner, [1803])

Vernacular: Dingy Footman

Account: Common in fens, water meadows, damp grassland and rural gardens throughout southern England and Wales, north to Yorkshire. Either plain straw yellow (ab. stramineola) or grey with yellow costal streak, both forms best distinguished from Common Footman E. lurideola and Buff Footman E. depressa by characteristic wing-shape. Larva feeds on various lichens growing on deciduous trees and bushes.

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: 32 — 40 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 11 Jun (1992) — 28 Oct (2025)

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

Foodplant: Lichenes.

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/eilema-griseola/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 508

Individuals: 603

Earliest Year: 1900

Latest Year: 2025

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