Hypsopygia glaucinalis
Orthopygia glaucinalis
Wingspan 23-30 mm. A mid brown coloured moth with two pale lines running across the wings.
It frequents sheds and farm buildings, gardens, hay-stacks, thatched roofs and bird nests.
On the wing in July and August, when it comes to light.
The larvae feed amongst the thatch or hay, or in other kinds of dry vegetable matter, such as birds' nests.
Relatively common locally in the Southern half of England, though numbers appear to be decreasing. It is also an occasional migrant to the South. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland. L&R Moth Group status = A (common and resident)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Double-striped Tabby
- Species group:
- Moths
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Pyralidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 97
- First record:
- 05/07/2003 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 02/08/2024 (Higgott, Mike)
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