Species Details

ABH: 45.034

BF: 1512

Family: Pterophoridae

Subfamily: Pterophorinae

Taxon: Merrifieldia baliodactylus

Authority: (Zeller, 1841)

Vernacular: Dingy White Plume

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) on chalk downland and waste ground, mainly in the southern counties of England Very similar to several other species of plume moth, from which separable only by dissection of the genitalia. Larva feeds on stems of Wild Marjoram.

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: 20 — 27 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 1 Jun (2011) — 18 Aug (2012)

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

Foodplant: Origanum sp.

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/merrifieldia-baliodactylus/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 29

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1997

Latest Year: 2020

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