About Scoparia pyralella Hübner, 1796
Scoparia pyralella (Hübner, 1796) is a small moth species with a wingspan ranging from 17 to 20 mm. Its forewings are pale brown or whitish, marked with darker brown patterns and crossed by transverse white lines; the hindwings are whitish. Meyrick provides a more detailed description: the forewings are white, with more or less dark fuscous speckling; a black mark mixed with ochre extends from the base of the costa; the lines are white with dark edges, the first is rather irregular, and the second is slightly angled and sinuate above the middle; the round orbicular spot and narrow oval claviform spot are yellow-ochreous, edged with dark fuscous, and rest on the first line; the discal spot is large, 8-shaped, yellow-ochreous with a dark margin, touching the costa above and the second line below; the terminal area is dark fuscous, with an irregular white subterminal line. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish, with grey suffusion toward the terminal edge. This species is rather similar in appearance to Scoparia ambigualis, Scoparia ancipitella, Scoparia basistrigalis, Scoparia subfusca, Eudonia lineola and Eudonia murana. This moth is distributed across most of Europe, and is quite common throughout most of Britain. It inhabits fields and forests.
