Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Common Local Status: Very common and widespread resident. Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation Flight time: Jun-Sep. Forewing: 13-14mm. 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 | |
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Year first recorded | 1885 | 1994 | 1885 |
Year last recorded | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 |
Number of records | 569 | 337 | 1812 |
Number of individuals | 3526 | 1068 | 9188 |
Unique positions | 240 | 34 | 548 |
Unique locations | 204 | 23 | 454 |
Adult records | 521 | 332 | 1706 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For the region, we have a total of 1812 records from 454 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1885.
Photos
Species Account
For further information refer UK Moths.
Davey, P., 2009: A common to abundant species throughout Britain, the larva feeding in the stem-bases of grasses (Poaceae). In Dorset, the moth is common to abundant in grassy places, with no geological preference.
This species is similar to Agriphila selasella1303. Diagnostics include: single white line on forewing terminates at half-way, not two-thirds; at half way this white line like light passing through a glass prism, splits into an array of divergent narrow thin white lines.
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