Species Details

ABH: 74.009

BF: 2423

Family: Nolidae

Subfamily: Chloephorinae

Taxon: Nycteola revayana

Authority: (Scopoli, 1772)

Vernacular: Oak Nycteoline

Account: Local in broad-leaved woodland, parks and gardens throughout much of the British Isles Very variable, with some eight distinct forms, and most likely to be passed over as a micromoth of the Tortricidae, especially Acleris hastiana or Acleris cristana. Larva feeds on Pedunculate Oak and Sessile Oak.

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: 22 — 28 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 25 Jan (2024) — 16 Dec (2022)

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

Foodplant: Quercus sp. (an oak).

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/nycteola-revayana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 736

Individuals: 170

Earliest Year: 1832

Latest Year: 2025

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