Lepidoptera Outer Hebrides

Family: Pyralidae   Checklist Number: 62.059

Phycitodes saxicola   Vaughan, 1870

Small Clouded Knot-horn

Rare and first recorded on South Uist in 2009. The only other record for the Outer Hebrides was from St. Kilda in 1959. Active from June to August. Common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) is the main foodplant

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