Species Details

ABH: 63.014

BF: 1370

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Pyraustinae

Taxon: Sitochroa palealis

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Sulphur Pearl

Account: Local on heathland, downland, waste ground and cliff-tops throughout much of southern England and East Anglia Fairly unmistakable: pale sulphur-yellow when fresh, fading whiter with age, but always with prominent veins. Larva feeds on flowers and seeds of Fennel, Wild Carrot, Pepper-saxifrage, Hogweed and other umbellifers.

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: 29 — 34 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 24 Jun (1998) — 21 Aug (2014)

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

Foodplant: Daucus carota (Carrot), Foeniculum sp., Umbelliferae.

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/sitochroa-palealis/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 21

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1992

Latest Year: 2020

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