Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and local resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Apr-Jun.

Forewing: 7-9mm.

Foodplant: Heathers.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1979	2002	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2011	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	12	51	23	22	7
Number of individuals	118	504	61	18	5
Unique positions	9	27	19	15	6
Unique locations	8	22	18	14	6
Adult records	12	51	20	19	6
Immature records	0	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 115 records from 68 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely recorded and common to abundant wherever there is a good growth of heather, both on the moors and in woodland throughout all five vice-counties.

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