| Common
Name |
|
Latin Name |
|
Food plant(s) |
|
Description |
| Scalloped Hook-tip
|
|
Falcaria lacertinaria |
|
Birch |
|
Greenish-brown, mottled, last
segment raised into point. Widely distributed |
| Oak
Hook-tip |
|
Drepana binaria |
|
Oak |
|
Ocherous, paler diamond marking
dorsally, twin-pointed structure on third segment. Most parts
of England and Wales |
| Barred Hook-tip |
|
Drepana cultraria |
|
Beech |
|
Similar to above, hump is smaller.
Southern England |
| Pebble
Hook-tip |
|
Drepana falcataria |
|
Birch and alder |
|
Bluish-green with ocherous and
brown markings, twin humps on segments two to five. Widespread |
| Dusky Hook-tip |
|
Drepana curvatula |
|
Birch, alder and oak |
|
Green laterally, dorsally brown
with purple tinge, pairs of small reddish projections which
have short black hairs, white spiracles ringed with black. Immigrant
species |
| Scarce
Hook-tip |
|
Sabra harpagula |
|
Small-leaved lime |
|
Brown, greenish-yellow dorsal
saddle markings. Local in the mature woods of Monmouth and Gloucester |
| Chinese Character
|
|
Cilix glaucata |
|
Hawthorn, blackthorn, bramble,
apple and pear |
|
Variegated with reddish-brown
and brownish-grey, raised hump on segment three. Distributed
in England, Wales, southern Scotland and Ireland |