Species Details

ABH: 63.013

BF: 1387

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Pyraustinae

Taxon: Nascia cilialis

Authority: (Hübner, 1796)

Vernacular: Orange-rayed Pearl

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in marshes and fens and along freshwater margins in the Cambridgeshire fens and, very locally, in Hampshire An easily recognised species, though it could conceivably be confused with the scarce immigrant Antigastra catalaunalis [Goater]. Larva feeds on Greater Pond-sedge

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: 24 — 27 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 21 Jun (2000) — 21 Jun (2000)

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

Foodplant: Carex riparia (Greater Pond-sedge), Carex sp. (a sedge).

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/nascia-cilialis/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2000

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