Species Details

ABH: 50.003

BF: 160

Family: Cossidae

Subfamily: Zeuzerinae

Taxon: Phragmataecia castaneae

Authority: (Hübner, 1790)

Vernacular: Reed Leopard

Account: A vulnerable Red Data Book species in reed-beds at Chippenham Fen and Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire and at Bure Marsh and Hickling Broad in the Norfolk Broads, with a small and declining population in Dorset, a species of conservation concern under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan Larva feeds within stems of Common Reed, over-wintering twice.

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: male 30 — 42 mm; female 38 — 56 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 23 Jun (1884) — 23 Jun (1884)

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

Foodplant: Phragmites australis (Common Reed).

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

Status: Near Threatened (NT)

UK BAP:

WCA:

No distribution map – Sensitive species!

Click here to view the full geology map of Surrey.

Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/phragmataecia-castaneae/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1884

Latest Year: 1884

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