Species Details

ABH: 70.201

BF: 1880

Family: Geometridae

Subfamily: Larentiinae

Taxon: Trichopteryx polycommata

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Barred Tooth-striped

Account: Nationally scarce (Na) on chalk downland, in scrub, hedgerows and open woodland, discontinuously in Britain from Sussex to Cumbria, a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan Unmistakable. Larva feeds on Wild Privet and Ash, 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: 33 — 36 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 23 Mar (1957) — 15 Apr (1956)

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

Foodplant: Fraxinus sp., Ligustrum vulgare (Wild Privet).

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

Status: Least Concern (LC)

UK BAP: BAP

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 14

Individuals: 27

Earliest Year: 1926

Latest Year: 2004

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