Species Account
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 Flight time: Apr-Oct. Forewing: 33-42mm. Foodplant: Many plants. (Rosebay and willowherbs) |
Regional breakdown:
| VC61 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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| Year first recorded | 2002 | 1857 | 1944 | 1949 |
| Year last recorded | 2011 | 1961 | 1952 | 1949 |
| Number of records | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Number of individuals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Unique positions | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Unique locations | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Adult records | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Immature records | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
For the county, we have a total of 11 records from 11 sites. First recorded in 1857.
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Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: There are no recent records of this rare migrant in Yorkshire. The last was from Askwith, near Otley (VC64) in 1949 (YNU, 1970). However on map 14 in MBGBI 9 it is shown that there have been between one and three recorded in each vice-county between 1940 and 1978.
2012 (CHF): There have been two further records of this migrant hawk-moth, Spurn in 2002 and Tophill Low in 2011, both coincidentally on 15th July.
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