Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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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 | |
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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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