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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Rare migrant

Local Status: Very rare migrant.

Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation

Flight time: Mid Jul-mid Aug.

Forewing: 19-22mm.

Foodplant:

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	Region
Year first recorded	1987	1987
Year last recorded	2008	2008
Number of records	22	44
Number of individuals	22	44
Unique positions	5	10
Unique locations	5	10
Adult records	22	44
Immature records	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 44 records from 10 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1987.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths

Davey, P., 2009: A central and southern European species, resident in the south-east coastal regions of Jersey and Guernsey, and a scarce immigrant to the coasts of south and south-east England, the larva leading a subterranean existence feeding on the roots of grasses and plants, and recorded as a serious pest in vineyards. In Dorset, singletons have been seen on twenty-three occasions, all but four from Portland and all at light traps. Many of the dates coincided with immigration from abroad, but a transient colony may have become established for several years following the hot summer of 2003 on Portland: West Bexington, on 9 August 2004 (R Eden), Wyke Regis, on 7 August 2003, 13 August 2004 (D Foot), Portland, on 19 August 1987, on 6 August 1989 (F Clafton), on 2 August 1991, 30 July 1992, 5 August 1994, 27 July 1995, 7 August 1995, 5 August 1996, 11 August 1997, 12 and 17 August 2004, 1, 6, 14 and 16 August 2005, 24 August 2007, 16 August 2008 (M Cade), on 4 August 1994 (B Skinner), Southwell, on 8 August 2005 (via PBO), Swanage, on 30 July 2008 (R Cox).

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