Species Details

ABH: 72.003

BF: 2477

Family: Erebidae

Subfamily: Hypeninae

Taxon: Hypena proboscidalis

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Snout

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats, including woodland, scrub, hedgerows, gardens, rough meadows and marshes throughout the British Isles. The combination of clear brown fascia and long, upturned palps make this a fairly unmistakable species, but occasionally individuals may lose their snout, or are mottled and have no cross-lines. Larva feeds on Stinging Nettle.

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: 34 — 40 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 16 May (2014) — 30 Oct (1957)

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

Foodplant: Urtica dioica (Common Nettle).

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/hypena-proboscidalis/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1849

Individuals: 2083

Earliest Year: 1903

Latest Year: 2025

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