Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 15-19mm.

Foodplant: Common Bird's-foot-trefoil.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1883	1883	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	271	105	359	327	45
Number of individuals	8594	758	5438	2707	484
Unique positions	96	69	183	118	19
Unique locations	89	58	171	115	17
Adult records	242	96	319	300	40
Immature records	3	1	20	13	4

For the county, we have a total of 1107 records from 450 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Present in many small isolated colonies in vice-counties 61-64, there has also been a single (dead) specimen reported from V65. Many colonies share sites with larger numbers of Z.lonicerae (Scheven).

2012 (CHF): Widespread across the county in flowery grassland and numbers seem to be stable. In contrast to the situation in 1989, we now have several VC65 records.

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