Species Details

ABH: 71.024

BF: 2013

Family: Notodontidae

Subfamily: Notodontinae

Taxon: Ptilophora plumigera

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Plumed Prominent

Account: Nationally scarce (Na) on chalk downland in parts of south-eastern England, from Dorset to Sussex Variable and rather nondescript for a 'prominent', but males can be recognised by their strongly bipectinate antennae. Larva feeds on Field Maple, over-wintering as an egg.

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: 35 — 44 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 1 Nov (1976) — 29 Nov (1996)

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

Foodplant: Acer campestre (Field Maple), Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore).

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/ptilophora-plumigera/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 51

Individuals: 279

Earliest Year: 1905

Latest Year: 2009

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