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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and local resident. Under-recorded due vast majority tre

Local Record: Grade G See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Oct-Nov.

Forewing: 15-20mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1979	2002	1992	1970	2000
Year last recorded	2014	2013	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	68	30	43	116	126
Number of individuals	137	94	74	2259	273
Unique positions	10	8	12	28	5
Unique locations	10	8	12	29	5
Adult records	68	30	43	116	126
Immature records	0	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 383 records from 64 sites. First recorded in 1970.

Photos

Species Account

See November Moth agg.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely distributed and often common throughout all five vice-counties, although records of imagines are fewer in some areas probably due to the lateness of the flight season. Larvae are reported to be common on hawthorn in May at Muston (PQW pers. comm.). A useful, but by no means infallible, guide to distinguishing the four Epirrita species from external characteristics is given on page 70 of Dunn and Parrack (1986). This itself is taken from Heslop Harrison (1932). The species can only be separated with certainty by examining the octavals or by larval morphology (AMR pers. comm.).

2012 (CHF): Separation of the four Epirrita species is fraught with difficulty. November Moth is by far the most likely one to be encountered particularly in gardens. The map shows records confirmed by dissection and show that it is widespread across most of the county. Wing markings of well-marked specimens are often very suggestive of November Moth but dissection often shows a different picture so unless dissected they are best logged as "November Moth agg". Page 94 of Waring, Townsend and Lewington (Field Guide to the Moths of GB and Ireland, second edition) shows how the males can be determined.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65