Species Detail - Twenty-plume Moth (Alucita hexadactyla) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Farmer Moth Monitoring Programme".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Alucita hexadactyla
Twenty-plume Moth
NHMSYS0000501204
RecommendedWell-formed
Alucita hexadactyla Linnaeus, Alucita poecilodactyla Stephens, 1835, Alucita polydactyla Hübner, [1813], Twenty-Plume Moth , Twenty-plume Moth or Many-plumed Moth , Twenty-plumed Moth , Twenty-plumed Moth or Many-plumed Moth
N/A
alhex
Linnaeus, 1758
Insect - moth
Species
22
14
12
17/07/2025
27/09/2025
1 January (recorded in 2012)
31 December (recorded in 2015)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Farmer Moth Monitoring Programme, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Twenty-plume Moth (Alucita hexadactyla), accessed 02 April 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/443/Species/80819