Species Details

ABH: 73.263

BF: 2157

Family: Noctuidae

Subfamily: Hadeninae

Taxon: Lacanobia w-latinum

Authority: (Hufnagel, 1766)

Vernacular: Light Brocade

Account: Local on calcareous grassland, heaths and open woodland throughout the British Isles. Unmistakable. Larva feeds on various wood plants, including Broom, Dyer's Greenweed and Bramble, and herbaceous plants, including Redshank, 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: 37 — 42 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 23 Apr (2019) — 10 Aug (2012)

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

Foodplant: Cytisus scoparius (Broom), Genista tinctoria (Dyer's Greenweed), Polygonum sp., Polyphagous.

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/lacanobia-w-latinum/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 669

Individuals: 138

Earliest Year: 1883

Latest Year: 2025

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