Species Details

ABH: 70.202

BF: 1881

Family: Geometridae

Subfamily: Larentiinae

Taxon: Trichopteryx carpinata

Authority: (Borkhausen, 1794)

Vernacular: Early Tooth-striped

Account: Common in broad-leaved woodland, scrubby heathland and fens throughout the British Isles. A distinctive early spring geometer, perhaps confusable only with Seraphim Lobophora halterata, but Early Tooth-striped is larger and greyer, with cross-lines weaker. Larva feeds on Sallow, Silver and Downy Birch, Honeysuckle and Alder, 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: 30 — 34 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 6 Mar (1989) — 22 May (1991)

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

Foodplant: Alnus glutinosa (Alder), Betula sp. (a birch), Lonicera sp., Salix sp. (a sallow).

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/trichopteryx-carpinata/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 381

Individuals: 362

Earliest Year: 1936

Latest Year: 2025

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