Small Chocolate-tip (Clostera pigra)


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Small Chocolate-tip
Clostera pigra (Hufnagel, 1766)
Notodontidae : Pygaerinae

2017 / 71.028
Nationally Scarce

Photo © Dave Wilton, Stoke Common 2019

Similar Upper Thames Species
Chocolate-tip Clostera curtula

Foodplant:	Creeping Willow, and low growth of other willows and Aspen.
Red List:	Least Concern (LC)
GB Status:	Nationally Scarce
Former Status:	Nationally Scarce B
Verification Grade: Adult: 3

Very local and uncommon in the region, with very few known sites. Associated with open, damp habitats.

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 11 (8%) of 140 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1750.
Last Recorded in 2022.

Latest 5 Records
Date	#	VC	10k Area
03/06/2022	2	22	SU66 - Burghfield Common / Mortimer
05/07/2020	1	22	SU86 - Wokingham / Bracknell
25/07/2019	2	24	SU98 - Slough (N), Burnham Beeches
25/07/2019	2	24	SU98 - Slough (N), Burnham Beeches
17/07/2018	1	24	SU98 - Slough (N), Burnham Beeches

Further info: Clostera pigra

	UK Moths		Mothdissection UK
	Lepiforum.de		Upper Thames Moths (Full)