Species Details

ABH: 43.007

BF: 918

Family: Scythrididae

Taxon: Scythris limbella

=Scythris quadriguttella

Authority: (Fabricius, 1775)

Vernacular: Goosefoot Runner

Account: Rare (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) in dry pastures, farmland, field edges and waste ground in parts of Kent and East Anglia, with records north to Yorkshire. Larva feeds on Goosefoot, Orache and Good-King-Henry, living between flowers and shoots spun together with silk, gregarious in early instars.

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: 13 — 17 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 3 Jun (2018) — 14 Jul (2005)

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

Foodplant: Atriplex sp., Chenopodium sp.

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

Status: pRDB3

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/scythris-limbella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 2

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2005

Latest Year: 2018

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