Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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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. |
Record breakdown:
VC9 | VC11 | Region | |
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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.
Photos
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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