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– Generally Common / Widespread
– easy to identify, generally distinctive and unlikely to be confused with other species.ID pointers: When at rest, this triangular shaped moth holds its wings open and flat. On the wing later in the year than other Thorns and unlike any other autumn flying moth. The tiny white spots near the tip of the forewing are unique to this species. Two horizontal cross-lines through the forewing are usually conspicuous, with the feathered antennae of the male being wider than other Thorns, hence the name.
Distribution: A resident that is fairly common and widely distributed throughout Derbyshire. Numbers are fairly even north to south and is most common in parks and gardens, where trees and shrubs are abundant.
*** Last updated on 6 May 2025 by RP ***
Forewing: 19-23mm
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Distribution Map for Colotois pennaria
derbyshiremoths.org © makes no guarantee of accuracy of data used in these maps and charts – they are presented to you with best endeavours and the data behind them updated periodically as time permits. Historic records are being discovered all the time. These will be assessed, so once they are all verified, they will be incorporated onto the map and charts.
Found 823 records
↳ 0 from After 2025
↳ 186 from 2020 - 2024
↳ 637 from Before 2020
↳ 0 from After 2025
↳ 186 from 2020 - 2024
↳ 637 from Before 2020
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Monthly Records By Year: Colotois pennaria
Monthly Counts By Year: Colotois pennaria
Recordings By Year: Colotois pennaria
Hectad (10kmx10km) Coverage: Colotois pennaria
Flight Periods – Indicative –vs– Recorded Data
Colotois pennaria
Colotois pennaria
Flight Period chart – the grey hatched area above, which can cross one or more months, pictorially represents the best guess we have for this moth's flight periods [month/s]. The coloured lines represent the actual months seen in flight, from site observation records received between 2020-2025.
Records Behind the Map and Charts - Colotois pennaria – 823 records available
Listed by Year - descending
| Taxon | Site Name | Tetrad | Year | Date | Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colotois pennaria | Ladycroft Ave, Buxton | SK07S | 2024 | 01/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Hathersage | SK28F | 2024 | 01/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Harlesthorpe Avenue, Chesterfield, England, GB | SK47Y | 2024 | 27/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 13/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ladycroft Ave, Buxton | SK07S | 2024 | 26/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Derbyshire Wild Life Trust Long Clough | SK09G | 2024 | 15/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Allestree, Derby | SK33P | 2024 | 23/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Glossop SK13, UK | SK09G | 2024 | 03/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Glossop, Gnat Hole Rough Fields | SK09L | 2024 | 02/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Glapwell Garden Trap | SK46T | 2024 | 23/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Inkersall garden | SK47G | 2024 | 18/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper | SK34N | 2024 | 30/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Glossop, Gnat Hole Rough Fields | SK09L | 2024 | 14/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 31/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Birch Vale | SK08I | 2024 | 21/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Staveley Derbyshire | SK47H | 2024 | 30/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mickleover garden | SK33C | 2024 | 01/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Norton Lees, Sheffield | SK38L | 2024 | 02/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper, Derbyshire | SK34N | 2024 | 06/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Inkersall garden | SK47G | 2024 | 16/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 28/10/2024 | 6 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 12/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 27/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 02/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | High Leas Farm, Riber | SK35D | 2024 | 02/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 06/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Findern, Derbyshire, DE65 6AZ | SK33A | 2024 | 25/10/2024 | 3 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 24/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Chaddesden, Derby | SK33T | 2024 | 10/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper | SK34N | 2024 | 24/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ladycroft Ave, Buxton | SK07S | 2024 | 30/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper | SK34N | 2024 | 24/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Old Park Plantation, Beeley | SK26U | 2024 | 03/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Glossop, Hague Street, Hay meadow | SK09G | 2024 | 05/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Inkersall garden | SK47G | 2024 | 24/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper | SK34U | 2024 | 01/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Longdendale, Wildboar Clough Woodland | SK09U | 2024 | 01/11/2024 | 11 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ashford Marble Mill | SK16Z | 2024 | 23/10/2024 | 3 |
| Colotois pennaria | Darwin Forest | SK26X | 2024 | 04/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper | SK34N | 2024 | 29/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Birch Vale | SK08I | 2024 | 29/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 29/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Birch Vale | SK08I | 2024 | 16/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Allestree, Derby | SK33P | 2024 | 07/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 30/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mickleover garden | SK33C | 2024 | 28/10/2024 | 4 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ladycroft Ave, Buxton | SK07S | 2024 | 06/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Castle Hill, Derby, England, GB | SK33A | 2024 | 30/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper, Derbyshire | SK34N | 2024 | 02/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ilkeston, Derbyshire | SK44K | 2024 | 25/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 13/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Staveley Derbyshire | SK47H | 2024 | 28/10/2024 | 3 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ilkeston, Derbyshire | SK44K | 2024 | 01/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 26/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 01/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Woodland Ave | SK43R | 2024 | 01/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 05/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Findern, Derbyshire, DE65 6AZ | SK33A | 2024 | 24/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 26/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Chaddesden, Derby | SK33T | 2024 | 03/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 22/10/2024 | 3 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ladycroft Ave, Buxton | SK07S | 2024 | 28/10/2024 | 4 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 23/10/2024 | 3 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 02/11/2024 | 3 |
| Colotois pennaria | Derbyshire Wild Life Trust Long Clough | SK09G | 2024 | 04/11/2024 | 5 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ladycroft Ave, Buxton | SK07S | 2024 | 21/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper | SK34N | 2024 | 31/10/2024 | 3 |
| Colotois pennaria | Derbyshire Wild Life Trust Long Clough | SK09G | 2024 | 31/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Darwin Forest | SK26X | 2024 | 03/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 31/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Birch Vale | SK08I | 2024 | 24/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 28/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mickleover garden | SK33C | 2024 | 10/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Allestree, Derby | SK33P | 2024 | 23/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mickleover garden | SK33C | 2024 | 25/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 29/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper, Derbyshire | SK34N | 2024 | 25/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Wingerworth, Derbyshire | SK36Y | 2024 | 29/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 13/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ladycroft Ave, Buxton | SK07S | 2024 | 24/10/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Mellor | SJ98Z | 2024 | 05/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | High Leas Farm, Riber | SK35D | 2024 | 02/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | upper cromford garden | SK25Y | 2024 | 25/10/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Belper | SK34N | 2024 | 06/11/2024 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Findern, Derbyshire, DE65 6AZ | SK33A | 2024 | 10/11/2024 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Upper Cromford Garden | SK25Y | 2023 | 03/11/2023 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Lower Cromford Garden | SK25Y | 2023 | 23/10/2023 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | High Leas Farm, Riber | SK35D | 2023 | 27/10/2023 | 3 |
| Colotois pennaria | Birch Vale | SK08I | 2023 | 04/11/2023 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Sandiacre | SK43T | 2023 | 19/11/2023 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Havercroft Road | SK38L | 2023 | 06/10/2023 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Findern Garden | SK33A | 2023 | 31/10/2023 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Derbyshire Wild Life Trust Long Clough | SK09G | 2023 | 14/11/2023 | 6 |
| Colotois pennaria | Derbyshire Wild Life Trust Long Clough | SK09G | 2023 | 29/10/2023 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Derbyshire Wild Life Trust Long Clough | SK09G | 2023 | 06/10/2023 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Chesterfield Ambulance Station | SK37K | 2023 | 02/11/2023 | 2 |
| Colotois pennaria | Ladycroft Ave | SK07S | 2023 | 24/10/2023 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Upper Cromford Garden | SK25Y | 2023 | 18/11/2023 | 5 |
| Colotois pennaria | Upper Cromford Garden | SK25Y | 2023 | 27/10/2023 | 1 |
| Colotois pennaria | Lower Cromford Garden | SK25Y | 2023 | 17/10/2023 | 1 |
Sensible limit reached – too many records to list on the page