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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and restricted resident, occasional wanderer.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jul-Sep.

Forewing: 13-19mm.

Foodplant: Sallows, Willow, Aspen other Poplars

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	1959	1983	1959
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	426	62	976
Number of individuals	1246	87	2666
Unique positions	96	11	214
Unique locations	61	8	138
Adult records	411	62	946
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 976 records from 138 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1959.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widespread species in Britain, the larva feeding on sallow (Salix spp), creeping willow (Salix repens), birch (Betula spp.) and aspen (Populus tremula). In Dorset, the moth is found exclusively on sandy soil where it is locally common. The following light trap records coincided with westerly airflows, and dispersal from upland regions to the west of Dorset are suspected on each occasion: Bridport, on 18 July 2004 (D Wedd), West Bexington, on 14 August 1993, 3 September 2001 (R Eden), Upwey, on 28 July 2004 (P Harris), Gillingham, on 27 July 1996 (G Hopkins). The following records are of potential second brood individuals and coincided with southerly airflows from abroad: Puddletown, at MV on 27 October 2001, 30 October 2001 (H Wood Homer).

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