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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and widely distributed resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Mid May-Aug.

Forewing: 10-13mm.

Foodplant: Various grasses.

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	1885	1995	1885
Year last recorded	2010	2010	2010
Number of records	248	197	890
Number of individuals	726	382	2216
Unique positions	174	15	378
Unique locations	126	13	278
Adult records	204	197	802
Immature records	1	0	2

For the region, we have a total of 890 records from 278 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1885.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A species found throughout Britain, the foodplant is unknown. Abroad, the larva feeds from a spun tube on grasses (Poaceae), and also on clovers (Trifolium spp.) and on mosses (Musci spp.). In Dorset, the moth is essentially a wetland species, colonising mire, damp heathland, moor and seasonally waterlogged soils; it is also present on coastal landslips that result from water seeping through clay soils. Examples recorded occasionally from drier biotypes, are likely to be dispersed moths from host wetland habitat.

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