Species Details

ABH: 63.058

BF: 1357

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Glaphyriinae

Taxon: Evergestis extimalis

Authority: (Scopoli, 1763)

Vernacular: Marbled Yellow Pearl

Account: Local on chalk downland and calcareous soils in parts of East Anglia and the Thames Estuary, also appearing as a migrant on the south coast of England, in some years arriving in sufficient numbers to breed Distinctive and easy to recognise. Larvae feeds within seedheads of various Cruciferae.

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: 27 — 31 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 24 Jul (2013) — 9 Sep (1978)

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

Foodplant: Cruciferae, Diplotaxis tenuifolia (Perennial Wall-rocket), Iberis sp., Sinapis sp., Sisymbrium sp.

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/evergestis-extimalis/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 3

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1978

Latest Year: 2013

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