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Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed and restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jun-Aug.

Forewing: M 12-16mm., F 15-20mm.

Foodplant: Common Reed and Reed Sweet-grass.

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	1930	1995	1930
Year last recorded	2010	2006	2010
Number of records	38	11	98
Number of individuals	91	16	214
Unique positions	32	6	76
Unique locations	22	6	56
Adult records	33	11	88
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 98 records from 56 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1930.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A species of large reedbeds in southern Britain, the larva feeding in the stems and rootstocks of common reed (Phragmitis australis) and reed sweet-grass (Glyceria maxima), and the adult is on the wing during June and July. In Dorset, the moth is mostly restricted to large reedbeds and their environs in the Poole Basin from Wareham to Christchurch where it is locally common, but it is occasionally recorded elsewhere.

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