List of moths of Great Britain (Noctuidae)

Subfamily [Noctuinae]

• Euxoa obelisca grisea, square-spot dart — south, west & north-east
• Euxoa tritici, white-line dart — throughout ‡*
• Euxoa nigricans, garden dart — throughout ‡*
• Euxoa cursoria, coast dart — east, west-central & north
• Agrotis graslini, Woods's dart — recently discovered on Jersey
• Agrotis cinerea, light feathered rustic — south & central
• Agrotis vestigialis, Archer's dart — throughout
• Agrotis segetum, turnip moth — throughout
• Agrotis clavis, heart and club — throughout
• Agrotis exclamationis, heart and dart — throughout
• Agrotis trux lunigera, crescent dart — south-west & west-central
• Agrotis ipsilon, dark sword-grass — immigrant
• Agrotis herzogi, Spalding's dart — rare immigrant
• Agrotis puta, shuttle-shaped dart
• Agrotis ripae, sand dart — south, central & north-east
• Agrotis crassa, great dart — immigrant
• Agrotis deprivata — ?recent rare immigrant
• Axylia putris, flame — throughout
• Actebia praecox, Portland moth — immigrant
• Actebia fennica, Eversmann's rustic — rare immigrant
• Ochropleura flammatra, black collar — rare immigrant
• Ochropleura plecta, flame shoulder — throughout
• Ochropleura leucogaster, Radford's flame shoulder — immigrant
• Standfussiana lucernea, northern rustic — south, west-central & north
• Rhyacia simulans, dotted rustic — throughout
• Rhyacia lucipeta, southern rustic — probable rare immigrant
• Noctua pronuba, large yellow underwing — throughout
• Noctua orbona, lunar yellow underwing — throughout
• Noctua comes, lesser yellow underwing — throughout
• Noctua fimbriata, broad-bordered yellow underwing — throughout
• Noctua janthina, Langmaid's yellow underwing — probable rare immigrant or resident
• Noctua janthe, lesser broad-bordered yellow underwing — throughout
• Noctua interjecta caliginosa, least yellow underwing — south & central
• Spaelotis ravida, stout dart — south & east-central
• Graphiphora augur, double dart — throughout ‡*
• Eugraphe subrosea, rosy marsh moth — west-central
• Protolampra sobrina, cousin German — north
• Eugnorisma glareosa, autumnal rustic — throughout ‡*
• Eugnorisma depuncta, plain clay — north, west-central & south-west
• Lycophotia porphyrea, true lover's knot — throughout
• Peridroma saucia, pearly underwing — immigrant & possible transitory resident
• Diarsia mendica, ingrailed clay
• Diarsia dahlii, barred chestnut — north, west-central & south-east
• Diarsia brunnea, purple clay — throughout
• Diarsia rubi, small square-spot — throughout ‡*
• Diarsia florida, fen square-spot — east-central, west-central & north
• Xestia alpicola alpina, northern dart — north
• Xestia c-nigrum, setaceous Hebrew character — throughout
• Xestia ditrapezium, triple-spotted clay — throughout
• Xestia triangulum, double square-spot —throughout
• Xestia ashworthii, Ashworth's rustic — west-central
• Xestia baja, dotted clay — throughout
• Xestia rhomboidea, square-spotted clay — throughout
• Xestia castanea, neglected rustic — throughout ‡*
• Xestia sexstrigata, six-striped rustic — throughout
• Xestia xanthographa, square-spot rustic — throughout
• Xestia agathina, heath rustic ‡*
• Naenia typica, Gothic — throughout
• Eurois occulta, great brocade — immigrant
• Anaplectoides prasina, green arches — throughout
• Cerastis rubricosa, red chestnut — throughout
• Cerastis leucographa, white-marked — south & central
• Mesogona acetosellae, pale stigma — rare immigrant

  Subfamily [Hadeninae]

• Anarta myrtilli, beautiful yellow underwing — throughout
• Anarta cordigera, small dark yellow underwing — north-east ‡
• Anarta melanopa, broad-bordered white underwing — north
• Discestra trifolii, nutmeg — throughout
• Lacinipolia laudabilis — ?recent rare immigrant
• Hada plebeja, shears — throughout
• Polia bombycina, pale shining brown — south
• Polia trimaculosa, silvery arches — throughout
• Polia nebulosa, grey arches — throughout
• Pachetra sagittigera britannica, feathered ear — south
• Sideridis albicolon, white colon — south, central & north-east
• Heliophobus reticulata marginosa, bordered Gothic — south & east-central
• Mamestra brassicae, cabbage moth — throughout
• Melanchra persicariae, dot moth — south, central & north ‡*
• Melanchra pisi, broom moth — throughout ‡*
• Lacanobia contigua, beautiful brocade — throughout
• Lacanobia w-latinum, light brocade — throughout
• Lacanobia thalassina, pale-shouldered brocade — throughout
• Lacanobia suasa, dog's tooth — south & central
• Lacanobia oleracea, bright-line brown-eye — throughout
• Lacanobia blenna, stranger — rare immigrant & temporary resident
• Papestra biren, glaucous shears — south-west, west-central & north
• Hecatera bicolorata, broad-barred white — throughout
• Hecatera dysodea, small ranunculus — south-east & south Wales
• Hadena rivularis, campion — throughout
• Hadena perplexa
• Hadena irregularis, viper's bugloss — presumed extinct
• Hadena luteago barrettii, Barrett's marbled coronet — south-west
• Hadena compta, varied coronet — south-east, south & east-central
• Hadena confusa, marbled coronet — throughout
• Hadena albimacula, white spot — south
• Hadena bicruris, lychnis — throughout
• Hadena caesia mananii, grey — north-west & Isle of Man
• Eriopygodes imbecilla, Silurian — south-west
• Cerapteryx graminis, antler — throughout
• Tholera cespitis, hedge rustic — throughout ‡*
• Tholera decimalis, feathered Gothic — throughout ‡*
• Panolis flammea, pine beauty — throughout
• Egira conspicillaris, silver cloud — south-west
• Orthosia cruda, small Quaker — throughout
• Orthosia miniosa, blossom underwing — south & west-central & occasional immigrant
• Orthosia opima, northern drab — throughout
• Orthosia populeti, lead-coloured drab — throughout
• Orthosia gracilis, powdered Quaker — throughout ‡*
• Orthosia cerasi, common Quaker — throughout
• Orthosia incerta, clouded drab — throughout
• Orthosia munda, twin-spotted Quaker — south, central & north
• Orthosia gothica, Hebrew character — throughout
• Mythimna turca, double line — south-west & south-east
• Mythimna conigera, brown-line bright eye — throughout
• Mythimna ferrago, clay — throughout
• Mythimna albipuncta, white-point — immigrant & recent colonist
• Mythimna vitellina, delicate — immigrant
• Mythimna pudorina, striped wainscot — south & central
• Mythimna straminea, southern wainscot — south & central
• Mythimna impura, smoky wainscot — throughout
• Mythimna pallens, common wainscot — throughout
• Mythimna favicolor, Mathew's wainscot — south & south-east
• Mythimna litoralis, shore wainscot — south, central & north-east
• Mythimna l-album, l-album wainscot — immigrant to south
• Mythimna unipuncta, white-speck — immigrant & possible transitory resident
• Mythimna obsoleta, obscure wainscot — south, east-central & west-central
• Mythimna comma, shoulder-striped wainscot — throughout ‡*
• Mythimna putrescens, Devonshire wainscot — south-west
• Mythimna loreyi, cosmopolitan — immigrant
• Mythimna flammea, flame wainscot — south-east & south

• Subfamily [Cuculliinae]

• Cucullia absinthii, wormwood — south & central
• Cucullia artemisiae, scarce wormwood — rare immigrant
• Cucullia chamomillae, chamomile shark — south, central & north
• Cucullia umbratica, shark — throughout
• Cucullia asteris, star-wort — south & central
• Cucullia gnaphalii occidentalis, cudweed — presumed extinct
• Shargacucullia lychnitis, striped lychnis — south
• Shargacucullia scrophulariae, water betony — rare immigrant
• Shargacucullia verbasci, mullein — south & central
• Calophasia lunula, toadflax brocade — south-east
• Calophasia platyptera, antirrhinum brocade — probable rare immigrant
• Brachylomia viminalis, minor shoulder-knot — throughout ‡*
• Leucochlaena oditis, beautiful Gothic — south
• Brachionycha sphinx, sprawler — south & central ‡*
• Brachionycha nubeculosa, Rannoch sprawler — north
• Dasypolia templi, brindled ochre — north, central & south-west ‡*
• Aporophyla australis pascuea, feathered brindle — south
• Aporophyla lutulenta, deep-brown dart — south & central ‡*
• Aporophyla lueneburgensis, northern deep-brown dart — north & west-central
• Aporophyla nigra, black rustic — north, south, west-central & east-central
• Lithomoia solidaginis, golden-rod brindle — north & west-central
• Lithophane semibrunnea, tawny pinion — south
• Lithophane hepatica, pale pinion — south & central
• Lithophane ornitopus lactipennis, grey shoulder-knot — south & west-central
• Lithophane furcifera, conformist
• Lithophane consocia — probable rare immigrant
• Lithophane lamda, nonconformist — immigrant
• Lithophane leautieri hesperica, Blair's shoulder-knot — south & central
• Xylena vetusta, red sword-grass — north, west & south
• Xylena exsoleta, sword-grass — north & central
• Xylocampa areola, early grey — throughout
• Meganephria bimaculosa, double-spot brocade — possible immigrant
• Allophyes oxyacanthae, green-brindled crescent — throughout ‡*
• Dryobota labecula, oak rustic — probably rare immigrant
• Dichonia aprilina, merveille du jour — throughout
• Dryobotodes eremita, brindled green — throughout
• Blepharita satura, beautiful arches — presumed extinct
• Blepharita adusta, dark brocade — throughout ‡*
• Blepharita solieri, bedrule brocade — rare immigrant
• Antitype chi, grey chi — north, central & south
• Trigonophora flammea, flame brocade — immigrant & transitory resident
• Polymixis flavicincta, large ranunculus — south & east-central
• Polymixis gemmea, cameo probable rare immigrant
• Polymixis xanthomista statices, black-banded — south-west
• Polymixis lichenea, feathered ranunculus

  Subfamily [Acronictinae]

• Eupsilia transversa, satellite — throughout
• Jodia croceago, orange upperwing — formerly south ; now rare immigrant
• Conistra vaccinii, chestnut — throughout
• Conistra ligula, dark chestnut — south, central & north
• Conistra rubiginea, dotted chestnut — south-west & south
• Conistra erythrocephala, red-headed chestnut — rare immigrant & transitory resident
• Agrochola circellaris, brick — throughout
• Agrochola lota, red-line Quaker — throughout
• Agrochola macilenta, yellow-line Quaker — throughout
• Agrochola haematidea, southern chestnut — south & south-east
• Agrochola helvola, flounced chestnut — throughout ‡*
• Agrochola litura, brown-spot pinion — throughout ‡*
• Agrochola lychnidis, beaded chestnut — south, central & north ‡*
• Atethmia centrago, centre-barred sallow — throughout ‡*
• Omphaloscelis lunosa, lunar underwing — throughout
• Xanthia citrago, orange sallow — throughout
• Xanthia aurago, barred sallow — south, central & north
• Xanthia togata, pink-barred sallow — throughout
• Xanthia icteritia, sallow — throughout ‡*
• Xanthia gilvago, dusky-lemon sallow — south, central & north ‡*
• Xanthia ocellaris, pale-lemon sallow — south-east
• Moma alpium, scarce merveille du jour — south
• Acronicta megacephala, poplar grey — throughout
• Acronicta aceris, sycamore — south & east-central
• Acronicta leporina, miller — throughout
• Acronicta alni, alder moth — south & central
• Acronicta tridens, dark dagger — south, central & north
• Acronicta psi, grey dagger — throughout ‡*
• Acronicta strigosa, marsh dagger — rare immigrant
• Acronicta menyanthidis, light knot grass
• Acronicta auricoma, scarce dagger — rare immigrant
• Acronicta euphorbiae myricae, sweet gale moth — north
• Acronicta rumicis, knot grass — throughout ‡*
• Simyra albovenosa, reed dagger — south-east
• Craniophora ligustri, coronet — throughout

  Subfamily [Bryophilinae]

• Cryphia algae, tree-lichen beauty — immigrant
• Cryphia domestica, marbled beauty — throughout
• Cryphia raptricula, marbled grey — immigrant
• Cryphia muralis, marbled green — south

  Subfamily [Amphipyrinae]

• Amphipyra pyramidea, copper underwing — south, central & north
• Amphipyra berbera svenssoni, Svensson's copper underwing — south & central
• Amphipyra tragopoginis, mouse moth — throughout ‡*
• Mormo maura, old lady — throughout
• Dypterygia scabriuscula, bird's wing — south-east & west-central
• Rusina ferruginea, brown rustic — throughout
• Thalpophila matura, straw underwing — south, central & north
• Trachea atriplicis, orache moth — rare immigrant
• Euplexia lucipara, small angle shades — throughout
• Phlogophora meticulosa, angle shades — throughout
• Actinotia polyodon, purple cloud — immigrant
• Actinotia hyperici, pale-shouldered cloud — rare immigrant
• Pseudenargia ulicis, Berber — probable rare immigrant
• Callopistria juventina, Latin — rare immigrant
• Ipimorpha retusa, double kidney — south & central
• Ipimorpha subtusa, olive — south, central & north
• Enargia paleacea, angle-striped sallow — probable immigrant to central & north
• Parastichtis suspecta, suspected — throughout
• Parastichtis ypsillon, dingy shears — south, central & north
• Dicycla oo, heart moth — south
• Cosmia affinis, lesser-spotted pinion — south & central
• Cosmia diffinis, white-spotted pinion — south & central
• Cosmia trapezina, dun-bar — throughout
• Cosmia pyralina, lunar-spotted pinion — south & central
• Hyppa rectilinea, Saxon — north
• Apamea monoglypha, dark arches — throughout
• Apamea lithoxylaea, light arches — throughout
• Apamea sublustris, reddish light arches — south & central
• Apamea zeta
• Apamea oblonga, crescent striped — south & central
• Apamea crenata, clouded-bordered brindle — throughout
• Apamea epomidion, clouded brindle — south, central & north
• Apamea lateritia, scarce brindle — immigrant
• Apamea furva britannica, confused — north, west & south
• Apamea remissa, dusky brocade — throughout ‡*
• Apamea unanimis, small clouded brindle — south, central & north
• Apamea anceps, large nutmeg — south & central ‡*
• Apamea sordens, rustic shoulder-knot — throughout
• Apamea scolopacina, slender brindle — south & central
• Apamea ophiogramma, double lobed — throughout
• Eremobina pabulatricula, union rustic — extinct
• Oligia strigilis, marbled minor — throughout
• Oligia versicolor, rufous minor — south, central & north
• Oligia latruncula, tawny marbled minor — south, central & north
• Oligia fasciuncula, middle-barred minor — throughout
• Mesoligia furuncula, cloaked minor — throughout
• Mesoligia literosa, rosy minor — throughout ‡*
• Mesapamea secalis, common rustic — throughout
• Mesapamea didyma, lesser common rustic — throughout
• Mesapamea remmi, Remm's rustic — south & central — status as a valid species uncertain
• Photedes captiuncula expolita, least minor — central
• Photedes minima, small dotted buff — throughout
• Chortodes morrisii
• Chortodes extrema, concolorous — south-east & east-central ‡
• Chortodes elymi, lyme grass — east
• Chortodes fluxa, mere wainscot — east-central & south
• Chortodes pygmina, small wainscot — throughout
• Chortodes brevilinea, Fenn's wainscot — east ‡
• Eremobia ochroleuca, dusky sallow — south & east-central
• Luperina testacea, flounced rustic — throughout
• Luperina nickerlii, sandhill rustic ‡
• Luperina dumerilii, Dumeril's rustic — immigrant
• Luperina zollikoferi, scarce arches — immigrant
• Amphipoea lucens, large ear — south-west, west-central & north
• Amphipoea fucosa paludis, saltern ear — south, central & north-west
• Amphipoea crinanensis, crinan ear — west, central & north
• Amphipoea oculea, ear moth — throughout ‡*
• Hydraecia micacea, rosy rustic — throughout ‡*
• Hydraecia petasitis, butterbur — south, central & north
• Hydraecia osseola hucherardi, marsh mallow moth — south-east
• Gortyna flavago, frosted orange — throughout
• Gortyna borelii lunata, Fisher's estuarine moth — south-east
• Celaena haworthii, Haworth's minor — central, north & south †*
• Celaena leucostigma, crescent ‡*
• Nonagria typhae, bulrush wainscot — throughout
• Archanara geminipuncta, twin-spotted wainscot — south & east-central
• Archanara dissoluta, brown-veined wainscot — south & central
• Archanara neurica, white-mantled wainscot — south-east ‡
• Archanara sparganii, Webb's wainscot — south, south-east & south-west
• Archanara algae, rush wainscot — south-east & east-central
• Rhizedra lutosa, large wainscot — throughout ‡*
• Sedina buettneri, Blair's wainscot — south
• Arenostola phragmitidis, fen wainscot — south, east-central & west-central
• Oria musculosa, Brighton wainscot — south
• Coenobia rufa, small rufous — south, central & north
• Charanyca trigrammica, treble lines — south & central
• Hoplodrina alsines, uncertain — throughout
• Hoplodrina blanda, rustic — throughout ‡*
• Hoplodrina superstes, powdered rustic — rare immigrant
• Hoplodrina ambigua, Vine's rustic — south & central
• Spodoptera exigua, small mottled willow — immigrant
• Spodoptera littoralis, Mediterranean brocade — probable rare immigrant & import
• Spodoptera cilium, dark mottled willow — rare immigrant
• Caradrina morpheus, mottled rustic — throughout ‡*
• Platyperigea kadenii, Clancy's rustic — rare immigrant
• Paradrina flavirena, Lorimer's rustic — probable rare immigrant
• Paradrina clavipalpis, pale mottled willow — throughout
• Perigea capensis, African — probable rare immigrant
• Chilodes maritimus, silky wainscot — south & central
• Athetis pallustris, marsh moth — east-central
• Proxenus hospes, Porter's rustic — rare immigrant
• Acosmetia caliginosa, reddish buff — south
• Stilbia anomala, anomalous — south, south-west, west & north ‡*
• Elaphria venustula, rosy marbled — south-east

  Subfamily [Stiriinae]

• Synthymia fixa, goldwing — rare immigrant
• Panemeria tenebrata, small yellow underwing — south & central

  Subfamily [Heliothinae]

• Periphanes delphinii, pease blossom — possible immigrant & import
• Pyrrhia umbra, bordered sallow — south, central & north-east
• Helicoverpa armigera, scarce bordered straw — immigrant
• Heliothis viriplaca, marbled clover — probable immigrant to south & east-central
• Heliothis maritima, shoulder-striped clover ‡
• Heliothis peltigera, bordered straw — immigrant
• Heliothis nubigera, eastern bordered straw — rare immigrant
• Schinia scutosa, spotted clover — immigrant

  Subfamily [Eustrotiinae]

• Eublemma ostrina, purple marbled — immigrant
• Eublemma parva, small marbled — immigrant
• Eublemma minutata, scarce marbled — probable rare immigrant
• Protodeltote pygarga, marbled white spot — south & central
• Deltote deceptoria, pretty marbled — immigrant & transitory resident
• Deltote uncula, silver hook — south, central & north-west
• Deltote bankiana, silver barred — probable immigrant to south-east

  Subfamily [Acontiinae]

• Emmelia trabealis, spotted sulphur — presumed extinct
• Acontia lucida, pale shoulder — immigrant

• Subfamily [Eariadinae]

• Earias clorana, cream-bordered green pea — south & east-central
• Earias biplaga, spiny bollworm — rare immigrant or import
• Earias insulana, Egyptian bollworm — probable rare immigrant & import

• Subfamily [Chloephorinae]

• Bena bicolorana, scarce silver-lines — south & central
• Pseudoips prasinana britannica, green silver-lines — throughout
• Nycteola revayana, oak nycteoline — throughout
• Nycteola asiatica, eastern nycteoline — probable rare immigrant
• Nycteola degenerana, sallow nycteoline — possible rare immigrant

Subfamily [Pantheinae]

• Colocasia coryli, nut-tree tussock — throughout

• Subfamily [Plusiinae]

• Chrysodeixis chalcites, golden twin-spot — immigrant & import
• Chrysodeixis acuta, Tunbridge Wells gem — rare immigrant
• Ctenoplusia limbirena, scar bank gem — immigrant
• Ctenoplusia accentifera, accent gem — probable rare immigrant
• Trichoplusia ni, ni moth — immigrant
• Trichoplusia vittata, streaked plusia — probable rare immigrant
• Thysanoplusia orichalcea, slender burnished brass — immigrant & import
• Diachrysia chrysitis, burnished brass — throughout
• Diachrysia chryson, scarce burnished brass — south & west-central
• Macdunnoughia confusa, Dewick's plusia — immigrant
• Polychrysia moneta, golden plusia — south, central & north
• Plusia festucae, gold spot — throughout
• Plusia putnami gracilis, Lempke's gold spot — central, north & south
• Autographa gamma, silver Y — immigrant throughout
• Autographa pulchrina, beautiful golden Y — throughout
• Autographa jota, plain golden Y — throughout
• Autographa bractea, gold spangle — west, north & south
• Megalographa biloba, Stephens' gem — probable rare immigrant
• Syngrapha interrogationis, scarce silver Y — central & north
• Cornutiplusia circumflexa, Essex Y — probable rare immigrant
• Abrostola triplasia, dark spectacle — throughout
• Abrostola tripartita, spectacle — throughout

  Subfamily [Catocalinae]

• Catocala fraxini, Clifden nonpareil — immigrant & transitory resident
• Catocala nupta, red underwing — south & central
• Catocala electa, rosy underwing — rare immigrant
• Catocala promissa, light crimson underwing — south
• Catocala sponsa, dark crimson underwing — south
• Catocala nymphagoga, oak yellow underwing — probable rare immigrant
• Minucia lunaris, lunar double-stripe — immigrant & transitory resident
• Clytie illunaris, Trent double-stripe — possible rare immigrant
• Dysgonia algira, passenger — immigrant
• Prodotis stolida, geometrician — rare immigrant
• Callistege mi, Mother Shipton — south, central & north
• Euclidia glyphica, burnet companion — south & central

  Subfamily [Ophiderinae]

• Catephria alchymista, alchymist — immigrant
• Tyta luctuosa, four-spotted — south, central & east
• Lygephila pastinum, blackneck — south & central
• Lygephila craccae, scarce blackneck — south-west
• Tathorhynchus exsiccata, Levant blackneck — rare immigrant
• Scoliopteryx libatrix, herald — throughout
• Phytometra viridaria, small purple-barred — throughout
• Anomis sabulifera, angled gem — possible rare immigrant

Subfamily [Rivulinae]

• Colobochyla salicalis, lesser belle — rare immigrant
• Laspeyria flexula, beautiful hook-tip — south & west-central
• Rivula sericealis, straw dot — throughout
• Parascotia fuliginaria, waved black — probable immigrant

• Subfamily [Hypeninae]

• Hypena crassalis, beautiful snout — south & west-central
• Hypena proboscidalis, snout — throughout
• Hypena obsitalis, Bloxworth snout — south-west
• Hypena obesalis, Paignton snout — rare immigrant
• Hypena rostralis, buttoned snout — south

• Subfamily [Strepsimananiae]

• Schrankia taenialis, white-line snout — south
• Schrankia intermedialis, autumnal snout — south-east — probable hybrid
• Schrankia costaestrigalis, pinion-streaked snout — south, central & north-west
• Hypenodes humidalis, marsh oblique-barred — throughout

• Subfamily [Herminiinae]

• Pechipogo strigilata, common fan-foot — south
• Pechipogo plumigeralis, plumed fan-foot — rare immigrant
• Zanclognatha tarsipennalis, fan-foot — throughout
• Zanclognatha lunalis, jubilee fan-foot — rare immigrant
• Herminia tarsicrinalis, shaded fan-foot — south-east
• Zanclognatha zelleralis, dusky fan-foot — possible very rare immigrant
• Herminia grisealis, small fan-foot — throughout
• Macrochilo cribrumalis, dotted fan-foot — south-east
• Paracolax tristalis, clay fan-foot — immigrant to south-east
• Trisateles emortualis, olive crescent — south-east