Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Very common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Jul.

Forewing: 14-16mm.

Foodplant: Many low growing plants.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1857	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	5604	1395	1798	3140	686
Number of individuals	18100	3894	4456	13408	3999
Unique positions	151	100	193	230	37
Unique locations	157	98	184	240	35
Adult records	5567	1373	1727	2959	682
Immature records	3	0	0	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 12623 records from 714 sites. First recorded in 1857.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: This species may have increased slightly over the past few years. Now reported as frequent or common from scattered sites in lowland areas over all five vice-counties. In at least one area it was commented that it had not been recorded prior to 1984 and other sources have suggested it has slowly moved north.

2012 (CHF): Common and widespread all over the county including some upland areas and numbers are stable. Since 2002 there has been a small but regular second brood in most years.

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