Description: Wingspan 37-42mm. Adults are richly marked with pale brown forewings and a dark brown central band becoming white at the peripheral edge. There is also a pale whitish edge to the dark-coloured basal patch. Early July to late August.

Irish Distribution: Recorded mainly from south east especially the Greater Belfast area; elsewhere local with scattered populations in the west where it was recently recorded from Crom Estate, Brookeborough and Garvary Wood, Fermanagh.

Ecology: A distinctive moth that is commonly recorded from suburban gardens and other old semi-cultivated areas where the foodplants may be found. The larvae can be found from April to June on cultivated and wild currants Ribes spp. It overwinters as an egg.

Key Identification Features:

• Dark brown central band, white at the peripheral edge
• Hindwings pale whitish brown; small fine crosslines

Distribution Map from NBN: Eulithis prunata at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Eulithis prunata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.