Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Common Local Status: Scarce and thinly distributed or restricted resident. Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug. Forewing: 14-18mm. Foodplant: Birches, Alder, Hazel and Oaks. |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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Year first recorded | 1883 | 1883 | 1883 | 1883 | 1883 |
Year last recorded | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 |
Number of records | 97 | 247 | 207 | 200 | 15 |
Number of individuals | 133 | 338 | 317 | 280 | 32 |
Unique positions | 38 | 91 | 93 | 85 | 8 |
Unique locations | 35 | 89 | 90 | 84 | 8 |
Adult records | 89 | 236 | 181 | 183 | 14 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For the county, we have a total of 766 records from 306 sites. First recorded in 1883.
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Species Account
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Locally common in wooded localities in vice-counties 61-64 but seemingly absent from the north-west (though recorded in Upper Teesdale in VC66 (Dunn & Parrack, 1986)). This is the most frequently recorded of this group of moths and is often more attracted to sugar than light.
Argus 47, 2001-04:
VC65. Magdalen Wood 13.5.2003 (JCW, SPW). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.
2012 (CHF): Fairly widespread in small numbers in light woodland, especially amongst birches.
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