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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

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
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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Yorkshire Moths
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