Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Common Local Status: Common and fairly widespread resident. Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation Flight time: May-Aug. Forewing: 4mm. Foodplant: Birch. |
Regional breakdown:
VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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Year first recorded | 1904 | 1859 | 1883 | 1883 | 1883 |
Year last recorded | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 |
Number of records | 23 | 35 | 113 | 60 | 15 |
Number of individuals | 27 | 21 | 56 | 22 | 4 |
Unique positions | 14 | 34 | 88 | 49 | 11 |
Unique locations | 9 | 32 | 86 | 48 | 11 |
Adult records | 10 | 5 | 20 | 8 | 1 |
Immature records | 12 | 28 | 89 | 51 | 13 |
For the county, we have a total of 246 records from 186 sites. First recorded in 1859.
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Species Account
Most records of leaf mines.
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely recorded and common throughout all five vice-counties, the most frequent of the birch-feeding Phyllonorycter species.
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