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: Two generations, May-Jun, Jul-Sep. Forewing: 6-8mm. Foodplant: Ragwort. |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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Year first recorded | 1904 | 1883 | 1883 | 1990 | 2001 |
Year last recorded | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 |
Number of records | 988 | 47 | 70 | 70 | 31 |
Number of individuals | 2300 | 49 | 73 | 118 | 47 |
Unique positions | 37 | 13 | 28 | 25 | 9 |
Unique locations | 40 | 13 | 27 | 23 | 6 |
Adult records | 987 | 46 | 68 | 60 | 31 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For the county, we have a total of 1206 records from 109 sites. First recorded in 1883.
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Species Account
Similar species: Three similar species: 0964 C. dubitana head/palps white, thorax blackish; 0966 C. atricapitana head/palps and thorax blackish; 0965 C. hybridella head/palps and thorax white.
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Quite widespread and sometimes locally fairly common in vice-counties 61 to 63 but not recorded from the north-west of the County.
Beaumont, 2002:
VC64. Austwick, 10, 16 & 22.6.1990 (PC); Drax, 25.6.1995 (EDC). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.
Argus 47, 2001-04:
VC65. Hutton Conyers, 15.5.2001 (CHF). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.
Argus 50, 2005: Most frequent in coastal localities with few records from north-west Yorkshire.
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