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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and local resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, mid Apr-mid Aug.

Forewing: 10-12mm

Foodplant: European 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	Region
Year first recorded	1959	1959
Year last recorded	2011	2011
Number of records	124	248
Number of individuals	188	376
Unique positions	31	62
Unique locations	28	56
Adult records	124	248
Immature records	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 248 records from 56 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 larch (Larix spp.). In Dorset, the moth is present in larch plantation, parkland and occasionally in woods where old larch trees have escaped felling. This species can be confused with the Grey Pug¹⁸³⁷, but, the proximity of larch trees plus a white crest on the thorax of the Larch Pug give clues to identification. The national norm is a single brood in May and June but in Dorset a bivoltine cycle is also evident with the peaks in early May and early July.

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