Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Two generations, May, Jul-mid Sep.

Forewing: 4mm.

Foodplant: Sycamore.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	2005	2005	1971	2001	2001
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	45	31	130	81	24
Number of individuals	46	7	34	20	6
Unique positions	31	30	109	69	21
Unique locations	30	29	108	66	21
Adult records	15	4	16	15	5
Immature records	30	27	108	63	19

For the county, we have a total of 311 records from 254 sites. First recorded in 1971.

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Species Account

Most records are of leaf mines.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Not noticed in the County until the early 1950s but now recorded widely and is often common. There is no record from VC61.

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

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65