Agonopterix arenella
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Brindled Flat-body
Occurs throughout Britain, it is a nocturnal flier and is attracted to light.
The Larva is green, paler laterally; dorsal and subdorsal lines dark green; dots blackish; head light brownish-ochreous; 2 with two blackish spots.
The Larvae feed on various thistles and knapweed.
The forewings are whitish ochreous, more or less suffused with fuscous and sprinkled with dark fuscous; costa spotted with dark fuscous; first discal stigma and a dot obliquely before and above it black; second indistinct, dark fuscous; a dark fuscous spot between and above these; dark fuscous terminal dots.
Hindwings are pale whitish-fuscous.
This species hatches in the autumn and spends the winter as an Adult.