Acrobasis suavella
Thicket Knot-horn
Trachycera suavella
Wingspan 22 to 24 mm.This is the largest of the British Trachycera species, and rather dark, being mostly reddish-purple with two indistinct pale cross-lines and a whitish suffusion near the leading edge of the forewing.
In areas containing Blackthorn.
July and August.
Blackthorn is the preferred foodplant, the larvae constructing an untidy silken gallery amongst the leaves.
It is a local species occurring in the southern English counties. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as local.
It appears to be uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland, where there are few records. L&R Moth Group status = D (rare or rarely recorded).
Mark Skevington
Ketton Quarry
26 June 2010
Mark Skevington
Ketton Quarry
27 July 2012
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Species profile
- Common names
- Thicket Knot-horn
- Species group:
- Moths
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Pyralidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 8
- First record:
- 26/06/2010 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 09/07/2019 (Dejardin, Andrew)
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andrew johnson
dadlington
15 July 2013
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