Photo © George Spraggs

Scarce Silver Y

Syngrapha interrogationis

Checklist Number
73.021 [B&F: 2447]

Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification

Classification

Family:Noctuidae
Subfamily:Plusiinae
Genus:Syngrapha
Species:interrogationis
Authority:(Linnaeus, 1758)

Local on moorland in northern England, Wales and Scotland; also appearing as an uncommon migrant in south-eastern England. In Hampshire recorded for the first time at Whitehill in vice-county 12 in August 1964, with a second nearby in the Deadwater Valley in August 2007; elsewhere four were recorded on Hayling Island in two days in August 2006, and there have been singletons at Boldre in July 1968 and Woolston in August 1995. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 38-42 mm. The most likely confusion species is Ni Moth Trichoplusia ni, which see for differences. Larva feeds on Heather, Bilberry and Bog-myrtle.

The abundance in each month is indicated as follows:

No records
Very occasional
Irregular
Uncommon
Off-peak, but not unusual
Off-peak, but not unusual
Main flight time
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Adult
Larval

Records by week (adult)

Records by week (larval)

No Larval records to show.

VC10 Isle of Wight

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
St. Catherine's Lighthouse (SZ47)04/08/2006onePaul CattermoleAdult
Totland (SZ38)25/07/2014oneSam Knill-JonesAdult

VC11 South Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Boldre, NF (SZ39)01/07/1968oneH G M MiddletonAdult
Woolston (SU41)10/08/1995oneAndy CollinsAdult
Sandy Point (SZ79)03/08/2006oneAndy JohnsonAdult
Hayling Island (SZ79)03/08/2006oneGeorge SpraggsAdult
Sandy Point (SZ79)04/08/2006oneAndy JohnsonAdult
Hayling Island (SZ79)04/08/2006oneGeorge SpraggsAdult

VC12 North Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Whitehill (SU73)15/08/1964oneD WrightAdult
Deadwater Valley (SU83)23/08/2007oneMike WearingAdult