Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Common Local Status: Fairly common and thinly distributed or restricted resident. Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation Flight time: Jul-Aug, then hibernates to following Spring. Forewing: 5-6mm. Foodplant: Sycamore. |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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Year first recorded | 1989 | 1984 | 1992 | 1989 | 2001 |
Year last recorded | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 |
Number of records | 74 | 29 | 110 | 72 | 24 |
Number of individuals | 71 | 13 | 92 | 34 | 13 |
Unique positions | 24 | 26 | 68 | 52 | 12 |
Unique locations | 24 | 26 | 66 | 49 | 12 |
Adult records | 63 | 12 | 46 | 31 | 13 |
Immature records | 11 | 17 | 63 | 41 | 11 |
For the county, we have a total of 309 records from 177 sites. First recorded in 1984.
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Species Account
Beaumont, 2002: This moth has become widely distributed and locally common in recent years, in 1989 only a single record was cited.
VC61. Spurn, 1.9.1989 det. HEB (BRS); Dunnington, 17.5.1991, 1.8.1992 (MRB); Bridlington, May, June and August 1977, frequent, det. HEB (ASE). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.
VC62. Wykeham Forest, August 1984 (HEB); Kirkham, Malton, reared ex. cone on sycamore 19.7.1989 (MRB).
VC63. Rossington, 7.7.1992 det. HEB (RIH), 28.7.1993 (RIH); Deffer Wood, vacated larval cones common on sycamore in September 1993; Denaby Ings, 30.10.1994, cones on sycamore (HEB). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.
VC64. Austwick, 2.8.1989 det J.D. Parrack (PC); Grass Wood, 6.5.1991 det. HEB (MRB). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.
Argus 47, 2004:
VC65. Hutton Conyers, 3.4.2001 det. HEB (CHF). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.
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