Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: RDB2

Local Status: Rare and very local resident.

Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jun-Jul.

Forewing: 17-20mm.

Foodplant: Various broad-leaved trees and shrubs, including Hawthorn, Pedunculate Oak and Sessile Oak.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC63	VC64
Year first recorded	1960	1857	1883
Year last recorded	1960	2014	1991
Number of records	1	34	8
Number of individuals	0	13	1
Unique positions	1	24	6
Unique locations	1	21	5
Adult records	0	22	6
Immature records	1	6	1

For the county, we have a total of 43 records from 27 sites. First recorded in 1857.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: This rare species is now even more local than formerly, there being no recent VC61 records. Most records are of larvae.

Beaumont, 2002: For a recent comprehensive assessment and listing of historical Yorkshire records see Howes, 2000 (Naturalist 125:121-135).
VC64. Bishop Wood, a single larva beaten 13.9.1991 (Jackson, 1993b).

2012 (CHF): The range in Yorkshire has contracted further and all recent records are from the south-east corner of VC63.

See background to species accounts. Index of Vernacular names - Search - Random Species

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65