Species Details

ABH: 52.011

BF: 379

Family: Sesiidae

Subfamily: Sesiinae

Taxon: Synanthedon myopaeformis

Authority: (Borkhausen, 1789)

Vernacular: Red-belted Clearwing

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in orchards, gardens, hedgerows, open woodland and scrub in southern England, northwards to Yorkshire, and north Wales Day-flying. Generally smaller than the similar Large Red-belted Clearwing, but the sizes overlap and it can be distinguished by the lack of an orange-red suffusion at the base of the forewings and whitish palps. Larva feeds within bark of Apple, Rowan, Pear and Almond.

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: 15 — 22 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 20 May (2020) — 14 Aug (1965)

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

Foodplant: Malus sp. (an apple).

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/synanthedon-myopaeformis/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 78

Individuals: 132

Earliest Year: 1888

Latest Year: 2025

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