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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Nationally Scarce B

Local Status: Rare and very local resident.

Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation

Flight time:

Forewing: 8-10mm.

Foodplant: Cacao, tobacco, cereals.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1952	1877	1883	2004	2012
Year last recorded	2013	2011	2006	2004	2012
Number of records	8	3	5	2	1
Number of individuals	8	1	2	2	3
Unique positions	6	2	5	1	1
Unique locations	7	2	5	1	1
Adult records	8	1	3	2	1
Immature records	0	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 19 records from 16 sites. First recorded in 1877.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Quite widely recorded in vice-counties 61 to 64 where it is sometimes abundant in warehouses, it also occurs regularly in stored grain and moths are occasionally taken at MV light.

Argus 63, 2011:
VC62. Skelton, 6.5.2011, gen. det. HEB (DM). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

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