Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

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
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.

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

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65