UKMoths Shaded Fan-foot Herminia tarsicrinalis - Distribution map
Please note that the NBN Gateway map service has been terminated as of 1 April 2017.
As soon as a replacement map service is available, distribution maps will hopefully appear here again.
In the meantime, you can get some idea of distribution from the NBN Atlas website.
72.054 BF2491
Shaded Fan-foot Herminia tarsicrinalis
(Knoch, 1782)
Wingspan 28-32 mm.
A very retiring species, which occupies bramble (Rubus) thickets in deciduous woodland. It very rarely moves far from these bushes, and as a result of this was only discovered as a British breeding species in the early 1980's.
It has now been found in various parts of East Anglia, and the best means of recording it seems to be to place a light-trap deep into the bramble bushes.
It flies in June and July, and the larvae (at least on the continent) feed on withered leaves.
More images
