Egira conspicillaris

Host plants:
The caterpillar lives polyphagous on herbs and shrubs such as Prunus spinosa.

Habitat:
Egira conspicillaris inhabits mostly dry warm places as forest edges, shrub-rich and dry slopes, hedge areas, sandy plains and similar places.

Life cycle:
The moths fly early in the year from March to May or June. The caterpillar lives from May to July. I found them still young in May 2009 in Valais and in May 2012 on the eastern Swabian Alb on Prunus spinosa. The pupa (respectively the partially developed moth in the chrysalis) overwinters.

Endangerment: regionally endangered or decreasing

Endangerment factors:
Egira conspicillaris is (so far only moderate) at risk, since dry warm, little used sites are becoming increasingly rare.

Remarks:
Egira conspicillaris is distributed from north Africa across Europe (excluding Northern Scandinavia) to Southwestern Asia.