Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Migrant Local Status: Very rare and very local migrant/wanderer. Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation Flight time: - Forewing: - Foodplant: - |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | |
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Year first recorded | 1926 | 1950 | 1867 | 1969 |
Year last recorded | 1953 | 1977 | 2009 | 1969 |
Number of records | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Number of individuals | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Unique positions | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Unique locations | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Adult records | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For the county, we have a total of 8 records from 7 sites. First recorded in 1867.
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Species Account
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: A rare migrant with only two recent records. Previous records are of several specimens in vice-counties 61-63 (YNU, 1970; Porritt, 1883-86).
2012 (CHF): The only recent record of this spectacular migrant was of one recently emerged from its pupa in Sheffield on 19.6.2009. The origins of this remain a mystery but it is unlikely to have been a primary migrant. The proximity to the Death's-head Hawk-moths in Sheffield Botanic Gardens in 2010 raises suspician that someone in the area might be breeding and releasing hawk-moths.
NB - this record has been re-examined and is in fact just over the border into VC57 so we cannot claim this as a Yorkshire record. The last Yorkshire record is 1977.
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