Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Local(alien-foodplant) Local Status: Rare and very local coastal resident. Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation Flight time: Jul-Sep. Forewing: 6-8mm. Foodplant: Tamarisk. |
Record breakdown:
VC9 | Region | |
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Year first recorded | 2003 | 2003 |
Year last recorded | 2011 | 2011 |
Number of records | 22 | 44 |
Number of individuals | 34 | 68 |
Unique positions | 11 | 22 |
Unique locations | 9 | 18 |
Adult records | 18 | 36 |
Immature records | 1 | 2 |
For the region, we have a total of 44 records from 18 sites. Earliest record on file is in 2003.
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Species Account
For further information refer UK Moths.
Davey, P., 2009: First recorded as breeding in Guernsey in 1986, and following the capture of a single individual at a light trap in Hertfordshire in 1989, a series of moths were observed between 1990 and 1995 along the West Sussex and Hampshire coast. In 1995 and 1996, larvae were found between Hayling Island and Brighton on tamarisk (Tamarix gallica). The moth is mainly single brooded, flying in June and July, with the occasional second brood specimen noted during the autumn; the caterpillar may be beaten from the host foodplant during the first half of August. There are just six records from Dorset. Of these, four are from West Bexington, the first, a very large specimen about the size of a Grey Pug1837, was recorded during Atlantic south-westerlies suggesting perhaps colonisation of tamarisk on Chesil Beach; there have been three more records subsequently: West Bexington, on 27 July 2003, 24 June 2008, 6 and 8 August 2008 (R Eden). The other two examples were seen on dates that coincided with airflows from western France, so are probably immigrants: Wyke Regis, on 5 September 2003 (D Foot), Durlston, 9 October 2006 (P Davey).
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