Moths & butterflies known to feed on common rest-harrow (Ononis repens):

Species Status Match
Silver studded blue
Plebejus argus
Vulnerable any Ononis species
Rest harrow
Aplasta ononaria
Near Threatened this species
Portland moth
Actebia praecox
LC any Ononis species
Yellow belle
Aspitates ochrearia
LC this species
Silver y
Autographa gamma
Not assessed this species
Yellow shell
Camptogramma bilineata
LC any Ononis species
Bordered straw
Heliothis peltigera
Not assessed this species
Marbled clover
Heliothis viriplaca
LC this species
Common blue
Polyommatus icarus
LC this species
Bordered sallow
Pyrrhia umbra
LC this species
Bordered grey
Selidosema brunnearia
LC this species
White colon
Sideridis turbida
LC this species
Sword-grass
Xylena exsoleta
LC this species

Host-plant data: Cook et al. (2025), Traits data for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland, 2024, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology / Butterfly Conservation; and Padovani et al. (2020), Database of Insects and their Food Plants (DBIF), UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (both Open Government Licence). Contains data supplied by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.