Amblyptilia punctidactyla, also known as the brindled plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found across the Palearctic (including Japan and Europe).
The species was first described by the English entomologist, Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811.
There are two generations per year in western Europe, with Adults on wing in July, and again from September to early-June, hibernating through the winter.
warm reddish-brown colour of the beautiful plume) and has distinct white speckling.
[5] Larval food plants include European columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris), common stork's-bill (Erodium cicutarium), meadow crane's-bill (Geranium pratense), bog-myrtle (Myrica gale), primroses (Primula species) and hedge woundwort (Stachys sylvatica).