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: Two generations, May-Jun, Jul-Sep.

Forewing: 13-18mm.

Foodplant: Pedunculate Oak. Sessile Oak and Turkey Oak.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1929	1930	1968	1956	1983
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2011
Number of records	158	133	226	231	43
Number of individuals	145	146	240	325	44
Unique positions	52	46	59	70	8
Unique locations	50	46	61	73	8
Adult records	152	129	216	220	43
Immature records	0	1	0	0	0

For the county, we have a total of 791 records from 238 sites. First recorded in 1929.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Previously fairly rare, this species has recently become much more frequent in Yorkshire and although still local, there are recent records from all five vice-counties.

2012 (CHF): Fairly widespread in oak woodland in lowland areas of the county but numbers have fallen significantly in the last ten years with the decline most marked in the east. There were only 19 records in 2011.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65