Occurs locally on high moorland and mountainous regions of Scotland and England.
Moorland
This species has a distinctive outline created by the hooked and notched forewings.
Common in the south of the country but becoming less common the further north one travels.
Woodland
This is a very variable species with many different forms but all have a pale green colour with whitish and blackish markings. Found during August and September and also April and May as it overwin
Mainly found in Southern England.
Inhabits Oak woodland.
A variegated reddish-brown and silvery moth that is difficult to spot as it rests amongst low moorland plants and rarely flies.
Common throughout Britain.
Found on heaths and moorland during September and October and overwinters until Spring.
This moth is probably the most variable Tortix moth and has numerous named forms, some of them resembling the scarcer A. cristana.
Found throughout Britain.
This moth varies in colouration but all have a distinct raised scale tuft in the middle of each forewing. It flies from August until November and from March till May the following year after hibern
Found mainly in the South of England.
This moth prefers fairly heavily wooded areas.
The moth's larva feed on a range of bushes and trees, including Hawthorn and Blackthorn, Apple and Common Whitebeam.
Scarce.
This is a variable species that is similar to A. ferrugana and seperating the two is difficult. These moths fly in July an October, the secong generation then overwinters, reappearing in Spring.
Common throughout the U.K.
Birch woods.
This moth was thought to only inhabit the Birch woods of the Scottish Highlands, it has nnow recently been found on a few occasions in the South of England, but these sightings could be migrants, and the species could well becoming established in the south of the country.
of the Scottish Highlands, it has now been found several
