Species Details

ABH: 54.001

BF: 165

Family: Zygaenidae

Subfamily: Procridinae

Taxon: Jordanita globulariae

Authority: (Hübner, 1793)

Vernacular: Scarce Forester

Account: Nationally scarce (Na) on calcareous grassland in Kent, Sussex, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. Recorded at Porton Down and Shipton Bellinger on the Hampshire/Wiltshire border. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan male 23-30 mm, female 19-23 mm. Day-flying. Very similar to Forester Adscita statices and Cistus Forester A. geryon, from which distinguished by minute differences in the antennae. Larva mines the leaves of Common Knapweed and Greater Knapweed.

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 23 — 30 mm; female 19 — 23 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Centaurea nigra (Common Knapweed), Centaurea scabiosa (Greater Knapweed).

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

Status: Near Threatened (NT)

UK BAP:

WCA:

No distribution map – Sensitive species!

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/jordanita-globulariae/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1867

Latest Year: 1867

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