Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Common Local Status: Common and fairly widespread resident. Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation Flight time: One generation, Aug-Oct. Forewing: 16-19mm. Foodplant: Herbaceous plants. Thistles, burdocks and Foxglove. |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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Year first recorded | 1883 | 1883 | 1883 | 1883 | 1976 |
Year last recorded | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 |
Number of records | 1795 | 527 | 457 | 753 | 240 |
Number of individuals | 2543 | 782 | 599 | 1445 | 415 |
Unique positions | 88 | 54 | 75 | 111 | 22 |
Unique locations | 91 | 51 | 72 | 120 | 22 |
Adult records | 1777 | 520 | 430 | 688 | 237 |
Immature records | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
For the county, we have a total of 3772 records from 356 sites. First recorded in 1883.
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Species Account
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely recorded but rarely common in all five vice-counties. The larvae and pupae can often be found in stems of creeping thistle and ragwort. This is another species which is very common in the South of Britain, becoming scarcer towards the North.
2012 (CHF): Fairly common and widespread across the county. Numbers seem to have increased a little recently and it is doing better in the north than it appeared to be doing in 1989.
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