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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: June

Forewing: 2.5-4.5mm.

Foodplant: Liverworts, detritus

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1859	1883	1984	1979
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2013	2014	2011
Number of records	32	15	61	25	6
Number of individuals	113	26	106	33	17
Unique positions	16	13	42	16	4
Unique locations	16	13	45	16	4
Adult records	31	13	59	25	6
Immature records	0	0	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 139 records from 94 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.
For information on genitalia determination refer to Lepidoptera Dissection Group 2013 website for male

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widespread and common in all five vice-counties.

2012 (CHF): The male of this species is easy to identify however the female does not have the silver-white fasciae and looks similar to Micropterix calthella. They can be told apart by looking at the base of the forewing. This is entirely purple in calthella but purple only on the costa in aruncella.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65