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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: Sep-May, (hibernates).

Forewing: 17-19mm

Foodplant: Oak

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	2000	1857	1883	1883	2006
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2015
Number of records	227	70	75	145	60
Number of individuals	218	87	78	156	87
Unique positions	43	13	31	31	5
Unique locations	45	13	33	33	4
Adult records	227	70	75	125	59
Immature records	0	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 577 records from 128 sites. First recorded in 1857.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: In the nineteenth century Porritt (1883-86) recorded this vagrant from Leeds (VC64), Pontefract (VC63) and York (VC61/62/64). The only record since was mentioned in the last list: from Sheffield (VC63) in 1965 (YNU, 1970).

Argus 52, 2006:
VC65. Hutton Conyers, 25.3.2006 (CHF). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

Argus 56, 2008:
VC62. Haxby, 25.10.2008 (TJC). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

Current status (CHF, 2011): Porritt mentioned Leeds, Pontefract and York as sites for this moth. There was one further record in Sheffield in 1965. There were no further records until single moths were taken at Spurn in 2000 and 2001, but from 2004 there has been a huge expansion to the north and west, and this species has become relatively common in the last few years apart from the north and west of the county. Recent records from the west of VC64 will have come from a similar expansion in north Lancashire.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65