Endothenia ericetana
Heath Marble
Wingspan about 18 mm.
A photograph is required. This is a rarely recorded species in our area and the County Recorder has asked for the specimen to be retained if you are submitting a record.
Endothenia ericetana inhabits meadows and fields and also occurs in farmland.
It flies in July and August. It is a retiring species is difficult to find in the daytime but can be attracted to light after dark.
The larvae feed in the stems and rootstock of woundwort (Stachys) and Corn-mint (Mentha arvensis).
Distributed throughout much of the British Isles, but local. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as local.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Pete Leonard
Barkestone Wood
11 July 2022
Pete Leonard
Nr Belvoir, Belvoir Fruit Farms
16 July 2019
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Species profile
- Common names
- Heath Marble
- Species group:
- insect - moth
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Tortricidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 16/07/2019 (Leonard, Pete)
- Last record:
- 11/07/2022 (Leonard, Pete)
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