Beautiful China-mark - Nymphula nitidulata
Wingspan 18-22 mm. One of the more distinctive and beautiful members of the Pyralidae.
Around lakes, rivers and ponds
On the wing during July and August. It flies in the evening and at night, and comes readily to light.
Larvae are aquatic, feeding on Bur-reed and other water plants.
Fairly widespread throughout Britain. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as local.
Fairly frequent but not common in Leicestershire & Rutland. L&R Moth Group status = B (scarce resident or restricted distribution or regular migrant)
Jonesboy1
Broughton Astley
23 June 2014
Mark Skevington
Watermead CP South
02 September 2011
David Nicholls
Watermead Country Park
25 June 2010
Denise Stretton
Stanton Lakes, Stoney Stanton
13 June 2014
Graham Calow
Stanton Lakes
05 July 2013
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
19 July 2013
Graham Calow
Stanton Lakes
11 July 2013
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Species profile
- Common names
- Beautiful China-mark, Beautiful China Mark
- Species group:
- Moths
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Crambidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 45
- First record:
- 13/06/2003 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 09/08/2023 (Skidmore, Paul)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
13 July 2013
Graham Calow
Stanton Lakes
05 July 2013
David Gould
G.U. Canal, Glen Parva, Leicester.
26 June 2016
