Species Details

ABH: 72.067

BF: 2470

Family: Erebidae

Subfamily: Boletobiinae

Taxon: Phytometra viridaria

Authority: (Clerck, 1759)

Vernacular: Small Purple-barred

Account: Local in calcareous grassland, heathland, moorland, woodland rides and sand-dunes throughout much of the British Isles Fairly unmistakable. Larva feeds on Common Milkwort and Heath Milkwort, over-wintering as a pupa.

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 — 23 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 15 Apr (2014) — 11 Aug (1962)

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

Foodplant: Polygala serpyllifolia (Heath Milkwort), Polygala vulgaris (Common Milkwort).

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/phytometra-viridaria/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 142

Individuals: 28

Earliest Year: 1898

Latest Year: 2020

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