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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Rare and very local resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jul-Aug.

Forewing: 15-18mm.

Foodplant: Sea Campion, Thrift, Common Rock-rose.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64
Year first recorded	1883	1883	1983	1918
Year last recorded	2013	2011	2011	2014
Number of records	15	43	2	7
Number of individuals	11	67	2	10
Unique positions	10	15	2	6
Unique locations	11	15	2	5
Adult records	14	43	2	6
Immature records	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 67 records from 33 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Rather rare in Yorkshire with only seven recent sites, however most of these are inland, a change in distribution since the last list (YNU, 1970).

2012 (CHF): Virtually all recent records have been on the east coast from Flamborough northwards though there was a record in 2011 from the south of VC63. There are several old records from Dib Scar/Grass Wood and the surrounding area but it has not been seen here since 1991. It seems to have been lost from some inland sites in other parts of the country.

See background to species accounts. Index of Vernacular names - Search - Random Species

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65