Species Details

ABH: 72.063

BF: 2466

Family: Erebidae

Subfamily: Toxocampinae

Taxon: Lygephila pastinum

Authority: (Treitschke, 1826)

Vernacular: Blackneck

Account: Local in damp meadows, fens, marshes, river-banks, damp woodland and calcareous grassland throughout much of S. England and S. Wales, north to Yorkshire The main confusion species is the extremely rare Scarce Blackneck L. craccae, which differs in having distal half of reniform stigmata weaker than proximal half, four dots on basal half of costa, and obscure or absent orbicular stigmata (dot on L. pastinum). Larva feeds on Tufted Vetch.

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 — 47 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 13 Jun (2020) — 3 Aug (1975)

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

Foodplant: Astragalus glycyphyllos (Wild Liquorice), Lathyrus palustris (Marsh Pea), Vicia cracca (Tufted Vetch).

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

Status: Near Threatened (NT)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/lygephila-pastinum/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 278

Individuals: 105

Earliest Year: 1886

Latest Year: 2023

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