Species Details

ABH: 73.284

BF: 2172

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Hadeninae

Taxon: Hadena albimacula

Authority: (Borkhausen, 1792)

Vernacular: White Spot

Account: A Red Data Book species, on shingle beaches, chalk sea cliffs and limestone cliffs in southern England, predominantly coastal, a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. It occurs locally along the south coast between Devon and Kent. In Dorset, the moth is common very locally on the chalk cliffs of the Purbeck coast and in Hampshire the population is very much confined to Browndown Ranges, near Gospost, where it has been present for many years: there appears to be no major threat to the site and the larval foodplant appears to be doing well. Larva feeds on seeds and seed capsules of Nottingham Catchfly, 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: 30 — 38 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 3 Jun (1983) — 3 Jun (1983)

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

Foodplant: Silene nutans (Nottingham Catchfly).

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

Status: Near Threatened (NT)

UK BAP: BAP

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/hadena-albimacula/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 1

Earliest Year: 1983

Latest Year: 1983

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