Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and local resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jul, (Aug).

Forewing: 16-19mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1929	1883	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	285	207	246	334	21
Number of individuals	314	265	275	386	24
Unique positions	56	65	100	97	11
Unique locations	56	68	103	94	11
Adult records	280	198	213	305	21
Immature records	0	0	3	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 1093 records from 332 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: A species associated with broad leaved woodland. Taken regularly and widely in vice-counties 62 to 64, but rather local in VC61 due to lack of suitable habitat. Not recorded from VC65, although taken regularly only just over the VC64 border near Ripon (S&JW pers. comm.).

2012 (CHF): Doing well and widely distributed across the county. There have now been records from several sites in VC65. Not uncommon in broad-leaved woodland but never in big numbers.

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