Lunar Underwing Omphaloscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing Anchoscelis lunosa (Haworth, 1809) Formerly Omphaloscelis lunosa
Status .....Very common at some sites, especially in some years at Eakring when it could be very common at MV light. We have not recorded this moth regularly, or in any numbers in recent years and the patchy distribution of this species in Nottinghamshire, may mean that it is not as common as we thought it once was. Seems to be rare along much of the Trent Valley.
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Photographed at Lound Wood October 2025

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Photographed at Sherwood Forest CP September 2009

The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - Trevor and Dilys Pendleton. Lound Moth Group. Colin Watkin. Graham and Anona Finch. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Phil Lee. David Hursthouse. Sean Tobin. Sherwood Forest Rothamsted trap results 1986-1990. Tim Sexton. Mark Dennis (Colwick Park Bird Reports 1993-2001). David Yates. Robert and Jill Carlyle. Sherwood Forest Invertebrate Directory 2014. NBGRC. Graham Birkett. Martin Gray. Meg Skinner. Phil Cadman. Ian Blackmore-Allen. Iain Leach, Kate Harte and Paul Baker (Budby South Forest Moth Trapping Results). Tom Shields. Phil Cadman. Jason Reece and Lily Reece. Andy Adcock. Tom Shields. Agnes Kiemel. Nick and Samantha Brownley. Neil Pinder. Martin Kennewell. Graham Beeley. David Atkinson.

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Updated March 2025


Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Lunar Underwing