Species Details

ABH: 35.061

BF: 748

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Anomologinae

Taxon: Ptocheuusa paupella

=Ptocheuusa inopella

Authority: (Zeller, 1847)

Vernacular: Pale Seedhead Moth

Account: Local in damp grassland, ditches, woodland rides and saltmarshes throughout much of southern England, southern Wales and southern Ireland Comes readily to light, and is fairly distinctive. Larva feeds within seedheads of Common Fleabane and Golden-samphire, 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: 10 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 27 Jun (2004) — 28 Aug (2018)

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

Foodplant: Centaurea nigra (Common Knapweed), Inula crithmoides (Golden-samphire), Mentha sp., Pulicaria sp.

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/ptocheuusa-paupella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 12

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2003

Latest Year: 2018

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