Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jun-Jul.

Forewing: 7-9mm.

Foodplant: Ash.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1859	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	155	54	81	72	24
Number of individuals	284	72	91	116	36
Unique positions	28	26	33	26	11
Unique locations	27	26	33	25	11
Adult records	153	51	72	63	23
Immature records	1	0	6	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 386 records from 122 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widespread and often common throughout all five vice-counties, the dark form rusticus (Haworth) is the predominant one in the south of VC63 where typical moths are uncommon.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65