LUPERINA NICKERLII

 THE SANDHILL RUSTIC MOTH

 This website is entirely about the moth Sandhill Rustic Luperina nickerlii and its European subspecies:

 albarracina
demuthi
graslini
gueneei
knilli
leechi
nickerlii
tardenota 

hosted by

Adrian Spalding

www.sandhillrustic.org

Anyone with additional information or photographs on Luperina nickerlii and its habitats, ecology and distribution is asked to contribute.  Our policy is to continually update this site as further information is obtained.

 email: A.Spalding@spaldingassociates.co.uk

A number of articles and reports have been published about Sandhill Rustics. This section will be regularly updated as permission is obtained to copy additional articles. The following are included here:

Spalding. A. 2002. In The Field: Searching for Sandhill Rustic Luperina nickerlii (Freyer). Atropos. 17: 50-52.

Spalding, A. 1997. The use of the butterfy transect method for the study of the nocturnal moth Luperina nickerlii leechi Goater (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and its possible application to other species. Biological Conservation. 80: 147-152.

Spalding, A. 1991. Notes on the behaviour of Luperina nickerlii leechi, the Sandhill Rustic (Lep.: Noctuidae) at its site in Cornwall. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. 103: 323-325

Other sites of interest:

Atropos
UKmoths