Species Details

ABH: 54.007

BF: 168

Family: Zygaenidae

Subfamily: Zygaeninae

Taxon: Zygaena viciae

=Zygaena viciae anglica

=Zygaena viciae argyllensis

=Zygaena viciae ytenensis

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: New Forest Burnet

Account: Subspecies ytenensis formerly abundant in Hampshire in the New Forest up until the early years of the 20th Century, where it frequented woodland rides and clearings, but now extinct in England, possibly through over-collecting. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight. Subspecies argyllensis confined in Britain to one or two cliff ledges at one site in western Argyll, where first discovered in 1963, protected under the UK Wildlife and Countryside Act, a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. Wingspan 21-31 mm. Day-flying. Larva feeds on Bird's-foot Trefoil and Meadow Vetchling.

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: 21 — 31 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Lathyrus pratensis (Meadow Vetchling), Lotus corniculatus (Common Bird's-foot-trefoil).

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

Status: Critically endangered (CR)

UK BAP: BAP

WCA: Schedule 5

No distribution map – Sensitive species!

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Verification Grade: 5 — Adults unidentifiable 😖 or pending grading 🧐
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/zygaena-viciae/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1914

Latest Year: 1914

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