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Distribution

Summary Data

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National Status: Migrant

Local Status: Very rare and very local migrant/wanderer.

Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation

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Forewing: -

Foodplant: -

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64
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 suspicion 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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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65