Species Account
Distribution
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National Status: Local Local Status: Rare and very local resident. Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation Flight time: One generation, Sep-Oct. Forewing: 17-22mm. Foodplant: Herbaceous plants. |
Regional breakdown:
| VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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| Year first recorded | 1883 | 1857 | 1883 | 1883 | 1883 |
| Year last recorded | 2012 | 2009 | 1958 | 1883 | 1883 |
| Number of records | 42 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Number of individuals | 36 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Unique positions | 21 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Unique locations | 21 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Adult records | 42 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Immature records | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For the county, we have a total of 62 records from 38 sites. First recorded in 1857.
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Species Account
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Now even more local than formerly (YNU, 1970) and almost entirely restricted to the coast.
2012 (CHF): In Porritt's day this species was much more common in Yorkshire and he described it as widely distributed and common in 1883. By the time of Rutherford's list in 1970 it had declined considerably. It is now a rare moth in the county; the main British Population being south of a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel and in south Wales. Yorkshire records are now virtually all coastal as far north as Scarborough and we have small numbers of recent records from several different sites although none were reported in 2011.
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