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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation mid Apr-Jun.

Forewing: 8-10mm

Foodplant: Scots Pine, Lodgepole Pine, Larch.

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	1979	1985	1979
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	100	24	248
Number of individuals	143	26	338
Unique positions	40	4	88
Unique locations	33	4	74
Adult records	94	24	236
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 248 records from 74 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1979.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A general distributed species in Britain, the larva feeding on the buds and fresh shoots of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). In Dorset, the moth is locally common on sandy soil amongst scots pine woods. Scots pine either block-planted or in scattered communities away from heathland also harbours the species, for example at Stubhampton Bottom and at Fontmell Down in north Dorset. Diagnostics include: pointed apex; light ochreous grey forewing; conspicuous ovate discal spot.

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