Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Common Local Status: Abundant and widespread resident. Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation Flight time: Two generations, Jun-Jul, Aug-Oct. Forewing: 14-17mm. Foodplant: Grasses. |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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Year first recorded | 1929 | 1930 | 1940 | 1886 | 1946 |
Year last recorded | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 |
Number of records | 8080 | 2312 | 1724 | 2781 | 1021 |
Number of individuals | 27231 | 7927 | 3903 | 12477 | 4292 |
Unique positions | 201 | 154 | 219 | 207 | 47 |
Unique locations | 203 | 154 | 217 | 219 | 43 |
Adult records | 8006 | 2254 | 1649 | 2654 | 1011 |
Immature records | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
For the county, we have a total of 15918 records from 836 sites. First recorded in 1886.
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Species Account
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely distributed and usually common in all five vice-counties. However in one area of Rotherham numbers are reported to have fallen steadily since the mid 1940s and it is commented that the larvae and foodplants are similar to those of M. impura (Hubner) which has shown no signs of decreasing over the same period (Barringer & Ely, 1979).
2012 (CHF): Common and widespread across all of the county in good numbers. From about 1994 a second brood has grown and now in most years outnumbers the first. The broods overlap with peaks in July and September.
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