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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and local resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 18-26mm

Foodplant: Scots Pine, Norway Spruce, Larch, Douglas Fir

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1980	1964	1986	1985	2002
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2012	2014	2013
Number of records	23	175	9	65	13
Number of individuals	13	251	11	103	28
Unique positions	16	39	7	22	5
Unique locations	14	37	7	19	5
Adult records	22	171	8	64	13
Immature records	0	1	1	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 285 records from 82 sites. First recorded in 1964.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: This species is easily confused with A. repandata (Linnaeus) and P. rhomboidaria (Denis & Schiffermuller). Its presence was not noticed in Yorkshire until some worn male specimens were recognised by S.M. Jackson by the form of their pectinate antennae at a trap run by W. Jagger near Pickering in 1974. It is now known to be quite widespread in north-east Yorkshire with occasional records from other parts of the County.

Argus 47, 2001-04:
VC65. Foxglove Covert, 19.7.2002 (CHF). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

2012 (CHF): Still local in coniferous woodland but uncommon in the south and east of the county. Often fairly dark and obscurely marked and the male antennae are more feathery than other similar moths.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65