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: Oct-mid Nov.

Forewing: 20-24mm.

Foodplant: Leaves of deciduous trees.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1904	1883	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2013	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	60	74	27	202	138
Number of individuals	27	77	19	1407	256
Unique positions	12	18	10	29	16
Unique locations	10	18	10	29	16
Adult records	57	67	23	195	134
Immature records	1	3	2	2	0

For the county, we have a total of 501 records from 83 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Now quite frequently recorded from the north of VC64 and the south of the North York Moors (VC62), but still distinctly uncommon in the other three vice-counties. The most recent record for VC63 given in the last list (YNU, 1970) was incorrect in that Stutton is in VC64.

2012 (CHF): Numbers have increased a little since 2000. Still very local in VC63 where all recent records are from Kirk Smeaton. Most often recorded from the centre of the county and it can be locally quite common eg 25 at Bellflask on 23.10.2011. It is difficult to be certain of trends of such late-flying species as a minority of people trap at the end of the year.

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