Toadflax Brocade Moth (Calophasia lunula)

OTHER NAMES: Toadflax Moth
Latin Etymology: Calophasia (?) lunula ("moon friend")

Toadflax Brocade Moth (Calophasia lunula) at Geddington, Northants - September 2026

Featured Subspecies: ?
Weight: ?  /  Length: 12mm  /  Wingspan: ?
NO UK STATUS / IUCN Red List: Not Yet Evaluated 

A small cryptically coloured moth found over most of temperate and boreal Eurasia, as well as being introduced in North America. While adults feed on nectar, the caterpillars, as the name suggests are specialists at feeding on toadflax plants where they eat new flowers and leaves first. In North America it is as a result actually used as a biological control on several non native toadflax species.
 
Related Species: 
Order: Lepidoptera 
Family: Noctuidae 
Genus: Calophasia 
SUBSPECIES: ?
 
- Sighting Locations -

UNITED KINGDOM - A fairly common resident

 - Seen in Geddington

Further Notes: BirdForum Opus, IUCN Red List, RSPB, Wikipedia, Xeno-canto