Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and very local resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: Aug-Oct.

Forewing: 18-22mm.

Foodplant: Grasses and bushes, Hawthorn for example, while the moorland populations usually feed on Heather spp..

IMPORTANT - Please note that the maps and accounts are provisional, subject to change and further update. The whole dataset still needs to go through the final verification process and it is likely that a very small number of records will not satisfy the present requirements and there are other records that have not been formally submitted. The information is for guidance only.

Record breakdown:

	VC9	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1959	1985	1959
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	125	107	464
Number of individuals	171	177	696
Unique positions	31	6	74
Unique locations	29	6	70
Adult records	122	107	458
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 464 records from 70 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1959.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A species restricted to southern and eastern England, the larva feeding on various grasses and deciduous shrubs. In Dorset, the moth is local and confined mainly to the eastern and southern portion of the county where it colonises unimproved grassland, particularly on scrub and bramble-rich sites.

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