Elder Pearl

Anania coronata

Anania coronata, the elderberry pearl, elder pearl or crowned phlyctaenia, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767 and is found in the northern parts of the Palearctic realm. It was previously also considered present in the Nearctic realm, but was found to be part of a species complex, with A. coronata being restricted to the Palearctic while the three closely related species A. plectilis, A. tertialis and A. tennesseensis are only present in the Nearctic. The adults of the species closely resembles Anania stachydalis. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this insect was recorded 3 times across 1 area (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.