Notodontadae. Twenty+ resident species Home Common Name   Latin Name   Food plant(s)   Description Buff-tip Phalera bucephala   Oak, sallow, lime and elm   Black and yellow, shining yellow-marked black head, grey and yellow stripes, greyish hairs. Most of the British Isles. Puss Moth Cerura vinula   Sallow, willow, aspen and poplar   Bright green, purplish-brown saddle-shaped dorsal marking edged with white, anal claspers are modified into long thin structures, which extrude red flagellae when alarmed. Widespread. Easy to home rear. Alder Kitten   Furcula bicuspis   Birch and alder   Bright green with reddish-brown saddle-shaped dorsal marking edged yellowish-white, anal claspers are modified into long thin structures. Woodland of south-west England, West Midland, Norfolk and south-east and central Wales. Sallow Kitten Furcula furcula   Sallow and willow   Bright green with purplish-brown saddle-shaped dorsal marking edged with yellow anal claspers are modified into long thin structures. Much of British Isles. Poplar Kitten   Furcula bifida   Aspen and poplar   Bright green with brown saddle-shaped dorsal marking that extends to the side edged with yellowish-white anal claspers are modified into long thin structures. Declining species most often found in the south of England. Lobster Moth   Stauropus fagi   Beech, oak, birch and hazel   Reddish-brown, large head, long thoracic legs, raised humps and swollen anal segment that has claspers. Mature woods in southern England and parts of Wales. Iron Prominent   Notodonta dromedarius   Birch, alder, oak and hazel   Green with brown dorsal stripe on first to seventh segments and raised humps on fourth to seventh segments. Woodland and heaths of British Isles. Large Dark Prominent   Notodonta torva   Aspen, poplar and birch   Grey, brown on rear segments, darker dorsal stripe, raised dorsal structures. Recorded twice in the British Isles. Three-humped Prominent   Tritophia tritophus   Aspen and poplar   Green, brownish-green, or grey, paler dorsal lines, humps on sixth to eighth segments, and hump on the end of body. Infrequent migrant, last recorded 1992. Pebble Prominent   Eligmodonta zizac   Sallow, poplar, aspen and willow   Grey, brown dorsal stripe, raised structures on 6th, 7th and 11th rings. Fairly common. Tawny Prominent   Harpyia milhauseri   Oak and sometimes beech   Green, speckled with pale green dots, yellow dorsal strip, forked structure on humped fourth segment, smaller similar ones on 5th to 8th rings. Immigrant recorded twice in Britain. Great Prominent   Peridae anceps   Oak   Green with red-edged lateral stripe, glassy green head. Mature oak woods in southern England and parts of Wales, locally in the Lake District. Lesser Swallow Prominent   Pheosia gnoma   Birch   Glossy purplish-brown, yellow spiracular stripe and hump on 11th segment. Fairly common. Swallow Prominent   Pheosia tremula   Sallow, aspen, poplar and willow   Green, broad yellow line ringed with yellowish-brown, hump on segment 11. Widespread. Coxcomb Prominent   Ptilodon capucina   Oak, birch, sallow and hazel   Green with red conical structures on segment 11. Most parts of Britain. Maple Prominent   Ptidodentella cucullina   Field maple   Bright green with darker dorsal line, humped structure on segment 11 tipped with brown. South and south-east counties of England and in East Anglia. Scarce Prominent   Odontosia carmelita   Birch   Bright green and wrinkled, paler lines, red-marked spiracular line, bluish-green under parts. Southern England, Nottinghamshire, Forest of Dean, Lake District, the Highlands of Scotland and south-west Ireland. Pale Prominent   Pterostoma palpina   Sallow, poplar and aspen   Bright green and wrinkled, faint white lines and yellow spiracular line. Most of England, much of Wales, local in Scotland and Ireland. White Prominent   Leucodonta bicoloria   Birch   Green, whitish dorsally, yellow subdorsal and spiracular lines, black spiracles. Recorded in mature birch woods of Co. Kerry in Ireland, may possibly still exist. Plumed Prominent   Ptilophora plumigera   Field maple   Pale green with whitish-green sides, white subdorsal and spiracular lines. Local species found in south and south-east England. Marbled Brown   Drymonia dodonaea   Oak   Light glossy green, pair of thin yellow lines along back, broader orange-marked pale yellow spiracular line. Much of England and Wales. Lunar Marbled Brown   Drymonia ruficornis   Oak   Green with yellow subdorsal lines, bright yellow spiracular line. Fairly common in southern England and parts of Wales. Dusky Marbled Brown   Gluphisia crenata   Aspen and poplars   Green with a pair of yellow dorsal lines between which are a series of crimson dots. Possibly still resident during the nineteenth century, two records between 1839 and 1853. Small Chocolate-tip   Clostera pigra   Aspen, willows and sallows   Bluish-grey marked with orange on back and sides, raised black spot on the 4th and 11th segments. Widely scattered. Scarce Chocolate-tip   Clostera anachorta   Sallow, aspen, poplar and willow   Dark grey, black dorsal line, orange-brown dorsal patches, russet coloured structure on segment 4, light brown hair. Established in south-east Kent between 1858 and 1912, apparently disappeared with odd sightings. In 1979 it established itself at Dungeness and seems to persist. Chocolate-tip   Clostera curtula   Poplar, aspen and willow   Dark grey with orange patches dorsally, raise black humps, pale grey hair. Southern and eastern England. Figure of Eight   Diloba caerulocephala   Blackthorn, hawthorn and apple   Bluish-grey, bright yellow dorsal marks, large black pinacula each bearing long black bristle. Most of England and eastern parts of Wales, local in Scotland, scarce in Ireland. Oak Processionary   Thaumetopoea processionea   Oak   Grey with blackish-grey dorsal stripe and long white hairs (irritant) from reddish-orange pinacula. Rare immigrant. Pine Processionary Thaumetopoea pityocampa   Pine   Reddish-yellow hairs arising from reddish-brown warts. Absent from Britain.