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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Common and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Mid Jun-mid Aug.

Forewing: 9-11mm.

Foodplant: Various plants and deciduous trees including Sallows and Oak.

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	1932	1993	1932
Year last recorded	2010	2010	2010
Number of records	481	360	1682
Number of individuals	1748	839	5174
Unique positions	241	44	570
Unique locations	166	28	388
Adult records	467	349	1632
Immature records	2	0	4

For the region, we have a total of 1682 records from 388 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1932.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A local species across southern England and Wales, the larva is polyphagous on plants and colonises leaf litter. In Dorset, the moth occurs in three main biotypes. The first is on open heathland where it is usually common, and locally abundant. The second is in mature and derelict deciduous woodland with deep oak leaf litter where it also locally abundant The third habitat is in coastal towns where it is occasionally frequent and where the larva has been found in leaf litter beneath lawson’s cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana). The national norm is for a single brood in July and August, but in Dorset the moth is bivoltine in some years with a partial second brood at the end of September.

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