Species Details

ABH: 65.001

BF: 1645

Family: Drepanidae

Subfamily: Drepaninae

Taxon: Falcaria lacertinaria

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Scalloped Hook-tip

Account: Common in deciduous, especially birch, woodland, scrub, heaths, gardens and hedgerows throughout the British Isles, female 34-40 mm. Combination of oblique cross-lines, irregularly-dentate termen, and tent-like resting posture characteristic. Larva feeds on Downy and Silver Birch, 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: male 32 — 36 mm; female 34 — 40 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 2 Apr (2002) — 12 Nov (2025)

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

Foodplant: Betula sp. (a birch).

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/falcaria-lacertinaria/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 797

Individuals: 428

Earliest Year: 1886

Latest Year: 2025

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