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Alder Kitten
Alder Moth
Angle-barred Pug
Angle-striped Sallow
Angle Shades
Antler Moth
Archer's Dart
August Thorn
Autumn Webworm
Autumnal Moth
Autumnal Rustic
Balsam Carpet
Barred Hook-tip
Barred Red
Barred Rivulet
Barred Sallow
Barred Straw
Barred Umber
Barred Yellow
Beaded Chestnut
Beautiful Brocade
Beautiful Carpet
Beautiful Golden Y
Beautiful Hook-tip
Beautiful Marbled
Beautiful Snout
Bedstraw Hawk-moth
Birch Mocha
Bird's Wing
Black-spotted Chestnut
Black Arches
Black Rustic
Blackneck
Blair's Shoulder-knot
Bleached Pug
Blood-vein
Blossom Underwing
Blotched Emerald
Blue-bordered Carpet
Bordered Beauty
Bordered Gothic
Bordered Pug
Bordered Sallow
Bordered Straw
Bordered White
Brick
Bright-line Brown-eye
Brimstone Moth
Brindled Beauty
Brindled Green
Brindled Pug
Brindled White-spot
Broad-barred White
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Broken-barred Carpet
Broom-tip
Broom Moth
Brown-line Bright-eye
Brown-spot Pinion
Brown-tail
Brown-veined Wainscot
Brown Rustic
Brown Scallop
Brown Silver-line
Brussels Lace
Buff-tip
Buff Arches
Buff Ermine
Buff Footman
Bulrush Wainscot
Burnet Companion
Burnished Brass
Butterbur
Buttoned Snout
Cabbage Moth
Campanula Pug
Campion
Canary-shouldered Thorn
Centre-barred Sallow
Chalk Carpet
Chamomile Shark
Chestnut
Chevron
Chimney Sweeper
Chinese Character
Chocolate-tip
Cinnabar
Clancy's Rustic
Clay
Clay Triple-lines
Clifden Nonpareil
Cloaked Minor
Cloaked Pug
Clouded-bordered Brindle
Clouded Border
Clouded Brindle
Clouded Buff
Clouded Drab
Clouded Magpie
Clouded Silver
Common Carpet
Common Emerald
Common Footman
Common Heath
Common Lutestring
Common Marbled Carpet
Common Pug
Common Quaker
Common Rustic
Common Rustic agg.
Common Swift
Common Wainscot
Common Wave
Common White Wave
Concolorous
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
Copper Underwing
Copper Underwing agg.
Coronet
Cosmopolitan
Coxcomb Prominent
Cream-bordered Green Pea
Cream-spot Tiger
Cream Wave
Crescent
Crescent Striped
Currant Clearwing
Currant Pug
Cypress Carpet
Cypress Pug
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
Dark / Grey Dagger
Dark Arches
Dark Brocade
Dark Chestnut
Dark Crimson Underwing
Dark Dagger
Dark Marbled Carpet
Dark Spectacle
Dark Spinach
Dark Sword-grass
Dark Tussock
Dark Umber
Death's-head Hawk-moth
December Moth
Deep-brown Dart
Delicate
Dentated Pug
Dewick's Plusia
Dingy Footman
Dingy Shears
Dingy Shell
Dog's Tooth
Dot Moth
Dotted Border
Dotted Chestnut
Dotted Clay
Dotted Fan-foot
Dotted Footman
Dotted Rustic
Double-striped Pug
Double Dart
Double Kidney
Double Lobed
Double Square-spot
Drinker
Dun-bar
Dusky-lemon Sallow
Dusky Brocade
Dusky Clearwing
Dusky Sallow
Dusky Thorn
Dwarf Cream Wave
Dwarf Pug
Ear Moth
Ear Moth agg.
Early Grey
Early Moth
Early Thorn
Early Tooth-striped
Eastern Bordered Straw
Elephant Hawk-moth
Emperor Moth
Engrailed
Eyed Hawk-moth
False Mocha
Fan-foot
Feathered Gothic
Feathered Ranunculus
Feathered Thorn
Fen Square-spot
Fen Wainscot
Fern
Festoon
Figure of Eight
Figure of Eighty
Five-spot Burnet
Five-spot Burnet agg.
Flame
Flame Carpet
Flame Shoulder
Flame Wainscot
Flounced Chestnut
Flounced Rustic
Forester
Four-dotted Footman
Four-spotted
Four-spotted Footman
Fox Moth
Foxglove Pug
Freyer's Pug
Frosted Green
Frosted Orange
Galium Carpet
Garden Carpet
Garden Dart
Garden Tiger
Gem
Ghost Moth
Goat Moth
Gold Spot
Gold Swift
Golden-rod Pug
Golden Plusia
Golden Twin-spot
Gothic
Grass Emerald
Grass Rivulet
Great Brocade
Great Prominent
Green-brindled Crescent
Green Arches
Green Carpet
Green Pug
Green Silver-lines
Grey Arches
Grey Birch
Grey Carpet
Grey Chi
Grey Dagger
Grey Pine Carpet
Grey Pug
Grey Shoulder-knot
Gypsy Moth
Haworth's Minor
Haworth's Pug
Heart and Club
Heart and Dart
Heart Moth
Heath Rustic
Hebrew Character
Hedge Rustic
Herald
Hoary Footman
Hornet Moth
Humming-bird Hawk-moth
Ingrailed Clay
Iron Prominent
Jersey Mocha
Jersey Tiger
July Belle
July Highflyer
Juniper Carpet
Juniper Pug
Kent Black Arches
Knot Grass
L-album Wainscot
Lace Border
Lackey
Langmaid's Yellow Underwing
Lappet
Larch Pug
Large Emerald
Large Nutmeg
Large Ranunculus
Large Red-belted Clearwing
Large Thorn
Large Twin-spot Carpet
Large Wainscot
Large Yellow Underwing
Latticed Heath
Lead-coloured Drab
Lead-coloured Pug
Lead Belle
Least Black Arches
Least Carpet
Least Yellow Underwing
Lempke's Gold Spot
Leopard Moth
Lesser-spotted Pinion
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Lesser Common Rustic
Lesser Cream Wave
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Lesser Treble-bar
Lesser Yellow Underwing
Light Arches
Light Brocade
Light Crimson Underwing
Light Emerald
Light Feathered Rustic
Light Orange Underwing
Lilac Beauty
Lime-speck Pug
Lime Hawk-moth
Little Emerald
Little Thorn
Lobster Moth
Lunar-spotted Pinion
Lunar Hornet Moth
Lunar Marbled Brown
Lunar Thorn
Lunar Underwing
Lunar Yellow Underwing
Lychnis
Magpie Moth
Maiden's Blush
Mallow
Many-lined
Maple Prominent
Maple Pug
Marbled Beauty
Marbled Brown
Marbled Clover
Marbled Coronet
Marbled Green
Marbled Minor
Marbled Minor agg.
Marbled White Spot
March Moth
Marsh Carpet
Marsh Dagger
Marsh Moth
Marsh Oblique-barred
Marsh Pug
May Highflyer
Mere Wainscot
Merveille du Jour
Middle-barred Minor
Miller
Minor Shoulder-knot
Mocha
Mother Shipton
Mottled Beauty
Mottled Grey
Mottled Pug
Mottled Rustic
Mottled Umber
Mouse Moth
Mullein
Mullein Wave
Muslin Footman
Muslin Moth
Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet
Narrow-winged Pug
Neglected Rustic
Netted Pug
Ni Moth
Northern Drab
Northern Spinach
Northern Winter Moth
November Moth
November Moth agg.
Nut-tree Tussock
Nutmeg
Oak-tree Pug
Oak Beauty
Oak Eggar
Oak Hook-tip
Oak Lutestring
Oak Nycteoline
Oak Processionary
Oak Rustic
Oblique Carpet
Oblique Striped
Obscure Wainscot
Ochreous Pug
Old Lady
Olive
Orache Moth
Orange-tailed Clearwing
Orange Footman
Orange Moth
Orange Sallow
Orange Swift
Orange Underwing
Pale-lemon Sallow
Pale-shouldered Brocade
Pale Brindled Beauty
Pale Eggar
Pale Mottled Willow
Pale November Moth
Pale Oak Beauty
Pale Pinion
Pale Prominent
Pale Shining Brown
Pale Tussock
Parallel Lines
Passenger
Pauper Pug / Fletcher's Pug
Peach Blossom
Peacock Moth
Pearly Underwing
Pebble Hook-tip
Pebble Prominent
Peppered Moth
Phoenix
Pimpinel Pug
Pine Beauty
Pine Carpet
Pine Hawk-moth
Pinion-spotted Pug
Pinion-streaked Snout
Pink-barred Sallow
Plain Golden Y
Plain Pug
Plain Wave
Plumed Fan-foot
Poplar Grey
Poplar Hawk-moth
Poplar Kitten
Poplar Lutestring
Porter's Rustic
Powdered Quaker
Pretty Chalk Carpet
Privet Hawk-moth
Purple-bordered Gold
Purple Bar
Purple Clay
Purple Thorn
Puss Moth
Rannoch Looper
Raspberry Clearwing
Red-belted Clearwing
Red-green Carpet
Red-headed Chestnut
Red-line Quaker
Red-necked Footman
Red-tipped Clearwing
Red Chestnut
Red Sword-grass
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Red Underwing
Reddish Light Arches
Reed Dagger
Reed Leopard
Reed Tussock
Rest Harrow
Riband Wave
Rivulet
Rosy Footman
Rosy Marbled
Rosy Minor
Rosy Rustic
Rosy Wave
Round-winged Muslin
Royal Mantle
Ruby Tiger
Ruddy Carpet
Ruddy Highflyer
Rufous Minor
Rush Wainscot
Rustic
Rustic Shoulder-knot
Sallow
Sallow Clearwing
Sallow Kitten
Sandy Carpet
Satellite
Satin Lutestring
Satin Wave
Satyr Pug
Scallop Shell
Scalloped Hazel
Scalloped Hook-tip
Scalloped Oak
Scarce Bordered Straw
Scarce Burnished Brass
Scarce Footman
Scarce Prominent
Scarce Silver-lines
Scarce Silver Y
Scarce Tissue
Scarce Umber
Scarce Vapourer
Scarlet Tiger
Scorched Carpet
Scorched Wing
September Thorn
Seraphim
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Shaded Broad-bar
Shaded Fan-foot
Shaded Pug
Shark
Sharp-angled Carpet
Sharp-angled Peacock
Shears
Short-cloaked Moth
Shoulder-striped Clover
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
Shoulder Stripe
Shuttle-shaped Dart
Silky Wainscot
Silver-ground Carpet
Silver Barred
Silver Hook
Silver Y
Silvery Arches
Single-dotted Wave
Six-belted Clearwing
Six-spot Burnet
Six-striped Rustic
Slender Brindle
Slender Pug
Sloe Carpet
Sloe Pug
Small Angle Shades
Small Blood-vein
Small Brindled Beauty
Small Chocolate-tip
Small Clouded Brindle
Small Dotted Buff
Small Dusty Wave
Small Eggar
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
Small Emerald
Small Fan-foot
Small Fan-footed Wave
Small Grass Emerald
Small Marbled
Small Mottled Willow
Small Phoenix
Small Purple-barred
Small Quaker
Small Ranunculus
Small Rivulet
Small Rufous
Small Scallop
Small Seraphim
Small Square-spot
Small Wainscot
Small Waved Umber
Small White Wave
Small Yellow Underwing
Small Yellow Wave
Smoky Wainscot
Smoky Wave
Snout
Southern Wainscot
Speckled Yellow
Spectacle
Spinach
Splendid Brocade
Spotted Clover Moth
Sprawler
Spring Usher
Spruce Carpet
Square-spot Rustic
Square-spotted Clay
Square Spot
Stout Dart
Straw Dot
Straw Underwing
Streak
Streamer
Striped Hawk-moth
Striped Wainscot
Suspected
Svensson's Copper Underwing
Swallow-tailed Moth
Swallow Prominent
Sycamore
Tawny-barred Angle
Tawny Marbled Minor
Tawny Pinion
Tawny Shears
Tawny Speckled Pug
Tawny Wave
Thyme Pug
Tissue
Toadflax Brocade
Toadflax Pug
Treble-bar
Treble Brown Spot
Treble Lines
Tree-lichen Beauty
Triple-spotted Clay
Triple-spotted Pug
True Lover's Knot
Turnip Moth
Twin-spot Carpet
Twin-spotted Quaker
Twin-spotted Wainscot
Uncertain
Uncertain/Rustic agg.
V-Moth
V-Pug
Valerian Pug
Vapourer
Varied Coronet
Vestal
Vine's Rustic
Water Carpet
Water Ermine
Waved Black
Waved Carpet
Waved Umber
Webb's Wainscot
White-banded Carpet
White-line Dart
White-line Snout
White-pinion Spotted
White-point
White-speck
White-spotted Pinion
White-spotted Pug
White Colon
White Ermine
White Satin
Willow Beauty
Winter Moth
Wood Carpet
Wood Tiger
Wormwood
Wormwood Pug
Yarrow Pug
Yellow-barred Brindle
Yellow-legged Clearwing
Yellow-line Quaker
Yellow-tail
Yellow Belle
Yellow Horned
Yellow Shell
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Lunar Thorn
Selenia
lunularia
(Hübner, [1788])
1918
/
70.238
Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.
Recorded in
6 (16%)
of 37 10k Squares.
First Recorded in
1820.
Last Recorded in
2024.
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Latest 5 Records
Date
#
VC
10k Area or
Nature Reserve
13/07/2024
1
29
TL45
-
Cambridge
17/07/2022
2
29
TL57
-
Kingfisher Bridge
17/07/2022
3
29
TL57
-
Kingfisher Bridge
27/08/2019
2
29
TL66
-
Chippenham Fen
15/07/2014
+
29
TL45
-
Cambridge
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Jim Wheeler
2026
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Forewing:
16-22mm.
Flight:
One generation May-June.
Foodplant:
Ash, Blackthorn, Dog-rose other broadleaved trees
Red List:
Least Concern (LC)
GB Status:
Common / Immigrant
Former Status:
Local (Immigrant)
Verification Grade:
Adult:
3
Immature
Adult
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