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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: One generation, Jul-Aug

Forewing: 17-20mm.

Foodplant: Grasses.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1880	1883	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2008
Number of records	2104	82	100	108	2
Number of individuals	6792	140	139	122	2
Unique positions	72	44	41	44	2
Unique locations	78	41	39	46	2
Adult records	2089	75	90	98	2
Immature records	1	0	0	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 2396 records from 206 sites. First recorded in 1880.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Although many records are still from lowland sites, the habitat preferences of this species do not seem as restrictive as suggested previously (YNU, 1970) ["apparently confined to the lower ground from which all records come"]. There are now also many more coastal records.

2012 (CHF): This species has been gradually declining in the county for many years and there is some evidence of a contraction of range to the south-east. In many areas of the county it has become rather local. 80% of our records come from the Spurn area where it used to be common for example 45 on 28/7/95, but large counts like this have not been noted since 2000. It is very much a moth of lowland areas though there is an odd record from Malham in 2003 which seems well out of area.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65