Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Scarce and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jun.

Forewing: 16-19mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1807	1874	1858	1943
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	82	65	64	189	30
Number of individuals	54	71	39	226	50
Unique positions	37	34	44	84	11
Unique locations	37	36	46	83	9
Adult records	79	61	44	177	29
Immature records	0	2	10	5	1

For the county, we have a total of 430 records from 211 sites. First recorded in 1807.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Rather more local than either A. megacephala (Denis & Schiffermiiller) or A. leporina (Linnaeus). However, it is the only one of these recorded in VC65, albeit in the very south. (Note, however, that although Dunn and Parrack (1986) list the two aforementioned species for Northumberland and Durham, the present species has never been recorded in either county). Characteristically recorded once or twice a year over a period of several years, but nowhere reported to be common.

Argus 47, 2001-04:
VC65. High Batts, 16.6.1984 (SPW). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

2012 (CHF): Widespread in the county in small numbers but rather local - mostly in broad-leaved woodland, not just amongst alders. Numbers are fairly stable and we normally receive 20 - 30 records per year.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65