Species Details

ABH: 48.003

BF: 387

Family: Choreutidae

Subfamily: Choreutinae

Taxon: Prochoreutis sehestediana

Authority: (Fabricius, [1777])

Vernacular: Banded Skullcap Skeletoniser

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in damp grassland and moorland in parts of southern England and western Scotland, where distinctly less common than P. myllerana Day-flying. Very similar to P. myllerana, which see for difference. Larva feeds on Skullcap and Lesser Skullcap.

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: 9 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 31 Jul (2011) — 16 Sep (2003)

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

Foodplant: Scutellaria galericulata (Skullcap), Scutellaria minor (Lesser Skullcap).

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: 4 — ️‼️Dissection required️‼️
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/prochoreutis-sehestediana/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 4

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2011

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