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U.K. Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) Moth Species
A new set of BAP species of moths has recently been issued. The set comprises four tables detailing all the moth species concerned.
- Table 1 lists the UK BAP Priority species from the original listing retained at the 2007 review
- Table 2 shows former UK BAP Priority species downgraded by the 2007 review. In most cases this is because the research carried out has shown that these species have either recovered in population size or distribution or that the population size or distribution was greater than previously known
- Table 3 lists the 39 UK BAP Priority species added by the 2007 review, which combined with those in Table 1 gives total of 81 species (up from the previous 53 species). These are the species which require most urgent conservation effort. Over half of the additions are micro-lepidoptera, a group that was not covered during the initial selection of UK BAP species (with the exception of the Basil Thyme Casebearer Coleophora tricolor). Many of the species listed occur, or are thought to occur, on very few sites (often less than five) and are considered to be scarce, threatened and declining moths.
- Table 4 covers those widespread and common, but rapidly declining species that have met the UK BAP criteria and added by the 2007 review. (Research only).
- For reasons that are unclear, two qualifying species are missing from the formal listing signed up to by the ministers.
These are the Large Wainscot Rhizedra lutosa and the White-lined Dart Euxoa tritici. It is anticipated this will be rectified in due course.
TABLE 1. Moth species retained from the previous BAP list (7 families; 42 species)
FAMILY: ZYGAENIDAE | | |
0167 |
Slender Scotch Burnet | Zygaena loti scotica |
0168 | New Forest Burnet |
Zygaena viciae argyllensis |
FAMILY: SESIIDAE |
0384 | Fiery Clearwing |
Pyropteron chrysidiformis |
FAMILY: COLEOPHORIDAE |
0529 |
Basil Thyme Case-bearer |
Coleophora tricolor |
FAMILY: GEOMETRIDAE |
1675 | | Dingy Mocha |
Cyclophora pendularia |
1696 | Bright Wave |
Idaea ochrata |
1704 | Silky Wave |
Idaea dilutaria |
1731 | Chalk Carpet | Scotopteryx bipunctaria |
1772 | Netted Carpet |
Eustroma reticulata |
1785 | Barberry Carpet |
Pareulype berberata |
1787 | Argent & Sable |
Rheumaptera hastata |
1878 | Drab Looper |
Minoa murinata |
1880 | Barred Tooth-striped |
Trichopteryx polycommata |
1895 | Netted Mountain Moth |
Macaria carbonaria |
1908 | Dark Bordered Beauty |
Epione vespertaria |
1928 | Belted Beauty |
Lycia zonaria britannica |
1966 | Black-veined Moth |
Siona lineata |
1967 | Straw Belle |
Aspitates gilvaria |
FAMILY: SPHINGIDAE |
1982 | Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth | Hemaris tityus |
FAMILY: ARCTIIDAE |
2053 | Speckled Footman | Coscinia cribraria |
FAMILY: NOCTUIDAE |
2108 | Lunar Yellow Underwing | Noctua orbona |
2116 | Cousin German | Protolampra sobrina |
2125 | Northern Dart | Xestia alpicola alpina |
2129 | Ashworth's Rustic | Xestia ashworthii |
2148 | Pale Shining Brown | Polia bombycina |
2153 | Bordered Gothic | Heliophobus reticulata marginosa |
2172 | White Spot | Hadena albimacula |
2219 | Striped Lychnis | Shargacucullia lychnitis |
2242 | Sword Grass | Xylena exsoleta |
2257 | Orange Upperwing | Jodia croceago |
2315 | Heart Moth | Dicycla oo |
2317 | White-spotted Pinion | Cosmia diffinis |
2363 | Marsh Mallow Moth | Hydraecia osseola hucherardi |
2378 | Brighton Wainscot | Oria musculosa |
2392 | Marsh Moth | Athetis pallustris |
2393 | Reddish Buff | Acosmetia caliginosa |
2454 | Light Crimson Underwing | Catocala promissa |
2455 | Dark Crimson Underwing | Catocala sponsa |
2465 | Four-spotted | Tyta luctuosa |
2488 | Common Fan-foot | Pechipogo strigilata |
2494 | Clay Fan-foot | Paracolax tristalis |
2495 | Olive Crescent | Trisateles emortualis |
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TABLE 2. Moth species downgraded from the previous BAP list (3 families: 11 species)
FAMILY: LASIOCAMPIDAE |
1641 | Small Lappet | Phyllodesma ilicifolia |
FAMILY: GEOMETRIDAE |
1668 | Essex Emerald | Thetidia smaragdaria maritima |
1877 | Waved Carpet | Hydrelia sylvata |
FAMILY: NOCTUIDAE |
2131 | Square-spotted Clay | Xestia rhomboidea |
2191 | Double Line | Mythimna turca |
1816 | Toadflax Brocade | Calophasia lunula |
2253 | Black-banded | Polymixis xanthomista statices |
2277 | Scarce Merveille du Jour | Moma alpium |
2467 | Scarce Blackneck | Lygephila craccae |
2480 | Buttoned Snout | Hypena rostralis |
2482 | White-line Snout | Schrankia taenialis |
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TABLE 3. Moth species added to the previous BAP list by the 2007 review (17 families: 39 species)
FAMILY: NEPTICULIDAE |
0071 | | Stigmella zelleriella |
FAMILY: PRODOXIDAE |
0133 | Currant Shoot Borer | Lampronia capitella |
FAMILY: ADELIDAE |
0143a | | Nematopogon magna |
0144 | | Nemophora fasciella |
FAMILY: COSSIDAE |
0162 | Goat Moth | Cossus cossus |
FAMILY: ZYGAENIDAE |
0163 | Forester | Adscita statices |
FAMILY: TINEIDAE |
0202 | | Eudarcia richardsoni |
0221 | | Nemapogon picarella |
FAMILY: GRACILLARIIDAE |
0355 | | Phyllonorycter scabiosella |
0366 | | Phyllonorycter sagitella |
FAMILY: COLEOPHORIDAE |
0500 | | Coleophora hydrolapathella |
0538 | | Coleophora vibicella |
0527 | | Coleophora wockeella |
FAMILY: OECOPHORIDAE |
0653 | | Aplota palpellus |
0703 | | Agonopterix atomella |
0715 | | Agonopterix capreolella |
FAMILY: GELECHIIDAE |
0848 | | Syncopacma albipalpella |
0848a | | Syncopacma suecicella |
FAMILY: SCYTHRIDAE |
0916 | | Scythris siccella |
FAMILY: TORTRICIDAE |
1066 | | Celypha woodiana |
1243 | | Grapholita pallifrontana |
FAMILY: EPERMENIIDAE |
0482 | | Epermenia insecurella |
FAMILY: PYRALIDAE |
1364 | | Pyrausta sanguinalis |
1381 | | Anania funebris |
1410 | | Agrotera nemoralis |
1447 | | Sciota hostilis |
FAMILY: GEOMETRIDAE |
1664 | Rest Harrow | Aplasta ononaria |
1672 | Sussex Emerald | Thalera fimbrialis |
1679 | False Mocha | Cyclophora porata |
1847 | Scarce Pug | Eupithecia extensaria occidua |
1871 | Grey Carpet | Lithostege griseata |
1959 | Sloe Carpet | Aleucis distinctata |
FAMILY: LYMANTRIIDAE |
2025 | Scarce Vapourer | Orgyia recens |
FAMILY: NOCTUIDAE |
2143 | Small Dark Yellow Underwing | Anarta cordigera |
2347 | Concolorous | Chortodes extrema |
2372 | White-mantled Wainscot | Archanara neurica |
2351 | Fenn’s Wainscot | Chortodes brevilinea |
2354 | Sandhill Rustic | Luperina nickerlii ssp. leechi |
2402 | Shoulder-striped Clover | Heliothis maritima ssp. warneckei |
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TABLE 4. UK BAP species (common and widespread, but rapidly declining moths) added by the 2007 review - Research only (7 families: 71 species)
FAMILY: HEPIALIDAE |
0014 | Ghost Moth | Hepialus humuli |
FAMILY: LASIOCAMPIDAE |
1632 | Pale Eggar | Trichiura crataegi |
1634 | Lackey | Malacosoma neustria |
FAMILY: DREPANIDAE |
1646 | Oak Hook-tip | Watsonalla binaria |
1658 | Oak Lutestring | Cymatophorima diluta |
FAMILY: GEOMETRIDAE |
1673 | Small Emerald | Hemistola chrysoprasaria |
1682 | Blood-vein | Timandra comae |
1689 | Mullein Wave | Scopula marginepunctata |
1719 | Oblique Carpet | Orthonama vittata |
1723 | Red Carpet | Xanthorhoe decoloraria |
1725 | Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet | Xanthorhoe ferrugata |
1732 | Shaded Broad-bar | Scotopteryx chenopodiata |
1740 | Galium Carpet | Epirrhoe galiata |
1744 | Grey Mountain Carpet | Entephria caesiata |
1749 | Dark Spinach | Pelurga comitata |
1757 | Spinach | Eulithis mellinata |
1759 | Small Phoenix | Ecliptopera silaceata |
1784 | Pretty Chalk Carpet | Melanthia procellata |
1807 | Grass Rivulet | Perizoma albulata |
1864 | Streak | Chesias legatella |
1865 | Broom-tip | Chesias rufata |
1897 | V-moth | Macaria wauaria |
1894 | Latticed Heath | Chiasmia clathrata |
1912 | August Thorn | Ennomos quercinaria |
1914 | Dusky Thorn | Ennomos fuscantaria |
1915 | September Thorn | Ennomos erosaria |
1927 | Brindled Beauty | Lycia hirtaria |
FAMILY: LYMANTRIIDAE |
2020 | Figure of Eight | Diloba caeruleocephala |
FAMILY: ARCTIIDAE |
2057 | Garden Tiger | Arctia caja |
2060 | White Ermine | Spilosoma lubricipeda |
2061 | Buff Ermine | Spilosoma luteum |
2069 | Cinnabar | Tyria jacobaeae |
FAMILY: NOCTUIDAE |
2081 | White-line Dart | Euxoa tritici |
2082 | Garden Dart | Euxoa nigricans |
2117 | Autumnal Rustic | Eugnorisma glareosa |
2123 | Small Square-spot | Diarsia rubi |
2132 | Neglected Rustic | Xestia castanea |
2135 | Heath Rustic | Xestia agathina |
2114 | Double Dart | Graphiphora augur |
2153 | Dot Moth | Melanchra persicariae |
2163 | Broom Moth | Melanchra pisi |
2177 | Hedge Rustic | Tholera cespitis |
2178 | Feathered Gothic | Tholera decimalis |
2186 | Powdered Quaker | Orthosia gracilis |
2205 | Shoulder-striped Wainscot | Mythimna comma |
2225 | Minor Shoulder-knot | Brachylomia viminalis |
2227 | Sprawler | Asteroscopus sphinx |
2229 | Brindled Ochre | Dasypolia templi |
2231 | Deep-brown Dart | Aporophyla lutulenta |
2245 | Green-brindled Crescent | Allophyes oxyacanthae |
2250 | Dark Brocade | Blepharita adusta |
2265 | Flounced Chestnut | Agrochola helvola |
2266 | Brown-spot Pinion | Agrochola litura |
2267 | Beaded Chestnut | Agrochola lychnidis |
2269 | Centre-barred Sallow | Atethmia centrago |
2274 | Sallow | Xanthia icteritia |
2275 | Dusky-lemon Sallow | Xanthia gilvago |
2284 | Grey Dagger | Acronicta psi |
2289 | Knot Grass | Acronicta rumicis |
2299 | Mouse Moth | Amphipyra tragopoginis |
2330 | Dusky Brocade | Apamea remissa |
2333 | Large Nutmeg | Apamea anceps |
2342 | Rosy Minor | Mesoligia literosa |
2360 | Ear Moth | Amphipoea oculea |
2361 | Rosy Rustic | Hydraecia micacea |
2367 | Haworth’s Minor | Celaena haworthii |
2368 | Crescent | Celaena leucostigma |
2375 | Large Wainscot | Rhizedra lutosa |
2382 | Rustic | Hoplodrina blanda |
2387 | Mottled Rustic | Caradrina morpheus |
2394 | Anomalous | Stilbia anomala |
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