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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Nb

Local Status: Very scarce migrant/wanderer.

Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jul-Sep.

Forewing: 13-16mm.

Foodplant: Lichens.

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	1990	1990
Year last recorded	2011	2011
Number of records	38	76
Number of individuals	58	116
Unique positions	17	34
Unique locations	14	28
Adult records	34	68
Immature records	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 76 records from 28 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1990.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A species confined to the coasts of south-west England and west Wales, the larva feeding on lichens growing on rocks. In Dorset, the moth has been recorded on thirty-three occasions with just under half of these seen during the summer of 2004; all are suspected immigrants. The moth occurs across much of Iberia, north-west Africa, central and eastern Europe.

It is rather similar in appearance to the Scarce Footman²⁰⁴⁷. Diagnostics include: lack of contrast between costal streak colour and forewing colour; costal streak light grey not yellow.

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