Aplasta ononaria (Fuessl.) Rest Harrow
p96. Migrant or vagrant; very rare; one record only (at Bradwell-on-Sea, 1961) *.
Pseudoterpna pruinata (Hufn.)
p96. Resident, fairly widespread and locally fairly common.
Geometra papilionaria (Linn.)
p96. Resident, widespread and locally fairly common.
Comibaena bajularia (D. & S.) (C. pustulata (Hufn.))
p96. Resident, fairly widespread and locally common.
Grass Emerald
Large Emerald
Blotched Emerald
Thetidia smaragdaria (Fabr.) Essex Emerald
p97. Resident, very rare. So far as is known, currently restricted to one small colony, not shown on
our map.
Hemithea aestivaria (Hb.)
p96. Resident, widespread and common.
Common Emerald
Chlorissa viridata (Linn.) Small Grass Emerald
No recent record. 40 Epping (Stephens, 1831). It is difficult not to entertain slight reservations
about this isolated record, but the locality would have provided suitable habitat for this species at the
time.
Thalera fimbrialis (Scop.) Sussex Emerald
p97. Migrant or vagrant, very rare; one record only (Bradwell-on-Sea, 1964) *.
Hemistola chrysoprasaria (Esp.) (H. immaculata (Thunb.))
p97. Resident, fairly widespread and locally common.
Jodis lactearia (Linn.)
p97. Resident, fairly widespread and locally fairly common.
Small Emerald
Little Emerald
Sterrhinae
The 'waves' are a large group of small moths with the thin-bodied, butterfly shape typical of many
geometrids. Both sexes have the wings and haustellum fully developed. The long, thin caterpillars are
oligophagous on herbaceous plants or shrubs but a few species are tree-feeders. Most species
overwinter as larvae. Twenty-six of the 40 British species are known from Essex, 22 of them being
resident One species is a migrant - a rare habit in the Geometridae.
Cyclophora annulata (Schulze) (Cosymbia annulata) The Mocha
p98. Resident, very local and scarce. 51 Matching, 1982 (AJF).; 63 Thaxted, 1975,1979 (AJF);
23 Copperas Wood, 1984 (PS).
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