Hantsmoths

Nationally scarce (Na) in areas with scattered trees in parts of Aberdeenshire and Perthshire, rare elsewhere. Unlikely to be recorded in Hampshire or on the Isle of Wight. Wingspan 22-29 mm. Distinguished from C. pinella by the white stripe slightly narrower at base, the more oblique median cross-line and particularly by the narrow white subterminal line which is absent in C. pinella; can be separated from C. osthelderi, and C. speculalis only by examination of genitalia [Goater]. Larva feeds on various mosses.