Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Scarce and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jul.

Forewing: 17-20mm.

Foodplant: Herbaceous plants.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1904	1883	1883	1858	1880
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2010
Number of records	23	41	41	114	27
Number of individuals	22	35	30	185	21
Unique positions	15	36	33	80	22
Unique locations	12	31	35	72	22
Adult records	19	25	31	104	20
Immature records	0	11	4	5	2

For the county, we have a total of 246 records from 172 sites. First recorded in 1858.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: This species seems to have declined in the past few years. There are still occasional reports from chalk grassland, moorland and mosses in all five vice-counties.

2012 (CHF): There have been increased numbers of records of this day-flying moth in the last ten years from the Dales, the North York Moors and the Pennines in the west of VC63. The only inland records have been from Wharram Quarry in VC61.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65