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Chocolate-tip Moth (Clostera curtula)
One of three Chocolate-tips seen in the UK along with C.pigra (Small Choclate-tip) and C.anachoreta (Scarce Chocolate-tip). The latter is seen at only one location on the Kent coast.
C, curtula has a strange distribution, being found on a local basis only in the southern halves of England & Wales, but not elsewhere, other than some localities in Scotland.
In England and Wales it has two flight seasons, April/May & August/September and in Scotland, just a June generation.
The adult has a ingspan of 27-35mm, is buff coloured and has 3 white cross-lines across the width of the forewings. At the tip of the forewing is a rich chocolate brown blotch from which it gets its name.
The larvae feed on Aspens, Poplars and Willows.
"Clostera curtula", the chocolate-tip, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of "Systema Naturae" and it is found in Europe ranging to Siberia.
