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Summary Data

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National Status: Local

Local Status: Scarce and local resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jul.

Forewing: 18-22mm.

Foodplant: Wych Elm, English Elm and Japanese Golden Elm.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1883	1846	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2013	2014	1984
Number of records	14	120	66	52	5
Number of individuals	7	116	50	74	4
Unique positions	14	44	46	36	4
Unique locations	13	42	48	29	4
Adult records	11	117	36	34	4
Immature records	0	0	0	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 257 records from 136 sites. First recorded in 1846.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: This species has declined in numbers since the spread of Dutch elm disease but its distribution has not changed a great deal since 1970. It is still widely distributed and fairly frequently found in hillside and valley woods with wych elm in vice-counties 62 to 64. However, there are only single records from VC61 (Flamborough, 23.6.1974, SCM) and south VC65 (Tanfield, Flint, 1972a). It has been suggested it may be able to feed on beech or hazel as an alternative to elm (AMRH pers. comm.).

Current status (CHF, 2011): Thinly spread and in a slow decline. Most recent records are from VC62. Few recent records in the south of the county.

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