Species Details

ABH: 16.004

BF: 427

Family: Yponomeutidae

Subfamily: Yponomeutinae

Taxon: Yponomeuta cagnagella

Authority: (Hübner, [1813])

Vernacular: Spindle Ermine

Account: Common wherever the foodplant occurs, on calcareous soils throughout the British Isles, less so in the north and not recorded north of Aberdeen (MBGBI Vol 3) Distinguished from Orchard Ermine Y. padella and Apple Ermine Y. malinellus by the white forewings with white terminal cilia. Larva feeds on Spindle and, in gardens, Evergreen Spindle, living gregariously within a silken web.

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: 19 — 26 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 7 Jul (2002) — 7 Jul (2002)

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

Foodplant: Euonymus europaeus (Spindle), Euonymus japonica.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/yponomeuta-cagnagella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 4

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2017

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