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Cataplectica farreni Walsingham, Plate V, Fig. 4 



Wingspan 9-10 mm. Forewing ground colour fuscous with whitish spots which may 

 coalesce to form an indistinct fascia. Larva with brown head and pale yellow body 

 with darker, interrupted subdorsal lines. Feeds within individual seed capsules of 

 Pastinaca sativa L. and perhaps other Apiaceae from August to September. The moth 

 flies in June and July. Rare, though perhaps overlooked, recorded from the South 

 Midlands, East Anglia and Aberdeenshire. 



Cataplectica profugella (Stainton), Plate V, Fig. 5 



Wingspan 8-10 mm. Forewing unicolorous brown with a bronze sheen in fresh 

 specimens. Larva with black head and prothoracic plate and dirty creamy-yellow body 

 with a wide, dull purplish-pink dorsal band and indistinct sublateral bands. Feeds 

 within the spun seeds of Daucus carota L., Pimpinella saxifraga L., Angelica sylvestris 

 L. and Aegopodium podagraria L. between September and October. Overwinters 

 as pupa, the moth occurs in July and August when it can be found flying around 

 the foodplant in early evening sunshine. Local throughout England from the Isle of 

 Wight to Northumberland, often found on downlands. 



Epermenia illigerella (Hiibner), Plate V, Fig. 6 



Wingspan 12-14 mm. Forewing ground colour ochreous-fuscous with darker 

 infuscations, especially distally. The cilia are white-tipped except near the apex which 

 gives the wing a subfalcate appearance. There are two or three scale teeth on the 

 dorsum. Larva with orange-brown head and yellow-green body with a darker dorsal 

 line. Bivoltine, the first generation feeds in May and June in the spun leaflets of 

 Angelica sylvestris L. and Aegopodium podagraria L. The second generation feeds in 

 August on the same foodplants, either in the umbel or in the floret stem beneath. 

 The moth flies in June and July and again in August and September. Fairly common 

 in England from the Midlands southwards. 



Epermenia insecurella (Stainton), Plate V, Fig. 7 



Wingspan 9-11 mm. Forewing ground colour white with a variable amount of 

 grey scaling that coalesces to form an indistinct fascia and a dark subterminal area. 

 There are also two small black dots on disc and up to five ochreous patches on disc 

 and dorsum. Dorsum of forewing with two scale teeth. Larva with black head and 

 yellowish body with brownish dorsal and subdorsal lines. Bivoltine, feeds in April 

 and May and again in July on Thesium humifusum DC, the young larva feeding 

 in full-depth mines in the leaves and also in the petiole; older larva feeding externally. 

 Larvae in the second generation feed on flowers and unripe seeds. The moth flies 

 in May and June, and a second generation in July and August. Local and rare in 

 central-southern England and infrequently observed in recent years. Though possibly 

 under-recorded, it is absent from several localities where its foodplant is common. 



Epermenia chaerophyllella (Goeze), Plate V, Fig. 8 



Wingspan 12-13 mm. A variable species, the forewing colour from creamy-white to 

 fuscous. An indistinct fascia is visible on lighter specimens with more extensive 

 infuscation distally as well as ochreous patches, especially at three quarters. In darker 

 specimens, the whole wing is more or less infuscate though an ochreous patch at three 

 quarters is normally visible. Cilia white-tipped except near apex so that wing appears 

 subfalcate. There are three or four black and ochreous scale teeth. Larva with pale brown 

 head and yellowish body with a whitish dorsal line and black or brown spots. Feeds on 

 Heracleum sphondylium L., Pastinaca sativa L., Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoffm., 



