Photo © Dan Houghton
Sterrhopterix fusca
Checklist Number11.018 [B&F: 0195]
Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification
Classification
| Family: | Psychidae |
| Subfamily: | Oiketicinae |
| Genus: | Sterrhopterix |
| Species: | fusca |
| Authority: | (Haworth, 1809) |
Endangered (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) in parts of England and Wales. Not recorded in Hampshire or on the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan male 18-25 mm, female wingless. The adult moths are seen occasionally, but most records are of larval cases. Larva feeds on various grasses, Oak, Hawthorn, Birch and Heather, living within a movable case, over-wintering twice.
