The
family Thyatiridae comprises about 200 species, nine of which occur in
Great Britain:
250px, Poplar lutestring
* ''
Thyatira batis
The peach blossom (''Thyatira batis'') is a moth of the family Drepanidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''.
It is found throughout Europe and east through t ...
'', peach blossom — throughout
* ''
Habrosyne pyritoides
The buff arches (''Habrosyne pyritoides'') is a moth of the family Drepanidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found throughout Europe and is well distributed in the British Isles except the far north ...
'', buff arches — south and centre
* ''
Tethea ocularis octogesimea'', figure of eighty — south and centre
* ''
Tethea or
''Tethea or'', the poplar lutestring, is a moth of the family Drepanidae. It was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. The species can be found in Europe, northern and eastern Asia and Japan. The imago resembles '' T ...
'', poplar lutestring
:* ''Tethea or or'' — south (local)
:* ''Tethea or scotica'' — north (local)
* ''
Tetheella fluctuosa
''Tetheella'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Drepanidae described by Werny in 1966. Its single species, ''Tetheella fluctuosa'', the satin lutestring, was described by Jacob Hübner in 1803. It is found from western Europe across the Pale ...
'', satin lutestring — south-east and west (local)
* ''
Ochropacha duplaris
''Ochropacha'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Drepanidae. The genus was first described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1871. Its single species, ''Ochropacha duplaris'', the common lutestring, was first described by Carl Linnaeus in ...
'', common lutestring — throughout
* ''
Cymatophorima diluta hartwiegi'', oak lutestring — south and centre (local) (Vulnerable
[Fox, R., K.F. Conrad, M.S. Parsons, M.S. Warren and I.P. Woiwood, 2006. ''The State of Britain's Larger Moths''. Butterfly Conservation and Rothamsted Research, Wareham, UK.]) ‡*
* ''
Achlya flavicornis
''Achlya flavicornis'', the yellow horned, is a moth of the family Drepanidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. It is found from Europe to the eastern Palearctic ecozone.
The wing ...
'', yellow horned
:* ''Achlya flavicornis galbanus'' — south and centre
:* ''Achlya flavicornis scotica'' — north
* ''
Polyploca ridens'', frosted green — south (local)
Species listed in the 2007
UK Biodiversity Action Plan
The United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan or (UK BAP) was the UK government's response to the Convention on Biological Diversity, opened for signature at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The UK was the first country to produce a national Biodiversi ...
(BAP)
[Butterfly Conservation, 2007. ''The UK Biodiversity Action Plan – Moths''. Butterfly Conservation, Wareham, UK. 4p.] are indicated by a double-dagger symbol (‡)—species so listed for research purposes only are also indicated with an asterisk (‡*).
See also
*
List of moths of Great Britain (overview)
**Family lists:
Hepialidae,
Cossidae,
Zygaenidae,
Limacodidae,
Sesiidae,
Lasiocampidae,
Saturniidae,
Endromidae
Endromidae is a family of moths. It was long considered to be a monotypic family, containing just one species, the Kentish glory, '' Endromis versicolora'', found throughout the Palaearctic regio The family now consists of several genera and abou ...
,
Drepanidae, Thyatiridae,
Geometridae,
Sphingidae,
Notodontidae,
Thaumetopoeidae,
Lymantriidae,
Arctiidae,
Ctenuchidae
The Ctenuchina are a subtribe of moths in the family Erebidae.
Taxonomy
The Ctenuchina were previously classified as the subfamily Ctenuchinae of the family Arctiidae. That subfamily contained three tribes: Ctenuchini, Euchromiini (wasp moths) ...
,
Nolidae,
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f ...
and
Micromoths
References
* Waring, Paul, Martin Townsend and Richard Lewington (2003) ''Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland''. British Wildlife Publishing, Hook, UK. {{ISBN, 0-9531399-1-3.
Moths
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
Britain
