Cleora cinctaria ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Host plants:
The larvae live polyphagously in the herb layer and on young shrubs. I recorded it on Vicia cracca (Tyrol).

Habitat:
Cleora cinctaria inhabits open to semi-open habitats that are managed only extensively, such as open woodlands, bushy places, nutrient-poor grasslands and forb communities.

Life cycle:
The moths are on the wing especially between late March and early June, more rarely also later in a very partial second generation. The larvae occur between late April and early August.

Endangerment factors:
Cleora cinctaria is in decline because only traditionally managed, extensive places vanish more and more due to modern, nature-adverse agriculture and dark forest management.

Remarks:
Cleora cinctaria occurs across Europe and temperate Asia.