Species Details

ABH: 63.073

BF: 1340

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Scopariinae

Taxon: Eudonia truncicolella

Authority: (Stainton, 1849)

Vernacular: Peppered Grey

Account: Common in a wide variety of habitats, including woodland and gardens, throughout Britain. Wingspan 18-23 mm. Very difficult to distinguish from E. murana, a very much rarer species which has, to 2008, yet to be recorded reliably in Hampshire or the Isle of Wight, but which has a less markedly zigzag postmedian line; can also be confused with Scoparia ambigualis, which see. Larva feeds on various mosses.

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: 18 — 23 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 19 Jul (2009) — 21 Sep (2007)

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

Foodplant: Musci.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/eudonia-truncicolella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 12

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2011

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