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Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

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
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.

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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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