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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: M 23-29mm., F 30-39mm.

Foodplant: Many woody plants and deciduous trees.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1904	1953	1876	1939	2002
Year last recorded	2014	2012	2014	2013	2013
Number of records	55	20	96	87	8
Number of individuals	33	18	79	74	10
Unique positions	36	12	63	43	1
Unique locations	37	12	63	44	1
Adult records	46	19	85	76	8
Immature records	2	0	1	1	0

For the county, we have a total of 266 records from 157 sites. First recorded in 1876.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: There do not appear to be any recent VC62 records and none at all for VC65. Skinner (1984) mentions Yorkshire as the northern limit of the species' distribution so it may be a real boundary rather than a lack of recording. On map 2 in MBGBI 2, the record from 10km square TA07 (from Harpham), just north of Driffield, is shown as the most northerly in Britain.

2012 (CHF): We now have recent records from all five VCs. Thinly distributed in lowland areas. This is still the northern limit of this species' range apart from one larval record in Durham probably brought in on imported logs.

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Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65