We identified six species of micro-moth that were not were not specified to occur on variety” of habitats in Sterling & Parsons (2012) despite strong evidence to the “many/most/wide contrary. These species, Chrysoteuchia culmella, Crambus perlella, Agriphila straminella, and (Agassiz et al. 2013), all Agriphila tristella, Agriphila inquinatella Agriphila geniculea belonged to the sub-family Crambinae. They accounted for 2,614 of the individuals recorded in our study, were present in substantial numbers on arable fields and are nationwide. As such, we sought a second opinion from an author of Sterling & Parsons (2012) on these species, which confirmed that they are widespread and occur in most grassland habitats, or “generally habitats with grassy situations” (Mark Parsons, pers. comm. 11th August 2016). We took this extra information into account so that these species were not incorrectly classified as CG moths.
We identified six species of micro-moth that were not were not specified to occur on “many/most/wide variety” of habitats in Sterling & Parsons (2012) despite strong evidence to the contrary. These species, Chrysoteuchia culmella, Crambus perlella, Agriphila straminella, Agriphila tristella, Agriphila inquinatella and Agriphila geniculea (Agassiz et al. 2013), all belonged to the sub-family Crambinae. They accounted for 2,614 of the individuals recorded in our study, were present in substantial numbers on arable fields and are nationwide. As such, we sought a second opinion from an author of Sterling & Parsons (2012) on these species, which confirmed that they are “generally widespread and occur in most grassland habitats, or habitats with grassy situations” (Mark Parsons, pers. comm. 11th August 2016). We took this extra information into account so that these species were not incorrectly classified as CG moths.
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