Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Apr-May.

Forewing: M 27-32mm. F 35-41mm.

Foodplant: Woody plants. Heathers, Bramble, Hawthorns etc.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1940	1883	1883	1883	1880
Year last recorded	2013	2014	2014	2015	2015
Number of records	16	117	111	169	27
Number of individuals	7	251	214	335	26
Unique positions	12	86	80	105	23
Unique locations	11	66	67	100	24
Adult records	6	74	67	115	17
Immature records	4	27	22	44	3

For the county, we have a total of 440 records from 268 sites. First recorded in 1880.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Frequent on many moors and heaths in vice-counties 62 to 64. It reappeared on Skipwith Common (VC61) in the 1970s and a male assembled to a female there on 5.5.1987 (SMJ). The only other VC63 record is from Allerthorpe Common, where males were found to be frequent on 20.5.1984 (PQW). There are only occasional records from VC65, but it is almost certainly present in fair numbers in suitable localities.

2012 (CHF): Many recent records from upland areas and present in smaller numbers on lowland heaths (Strensall, Allerthore, Skipwith and Hatfield Moor). Most daytime records are of males whilst the females come to light.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65