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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Two generations, May-Jul, Aug-Sep.

Forewing: 14-17mm.

Foodplant: Red, White and Sea Campion.

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	1905	1987	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	1510	71	3162
Number of individuals	1717	74	3582
Unique positions	161	9	340
Unique locations	138	10	296
Adult records	1277	71	2696
Immature records	1	0	2

For the region, we have a total of 3162 records from 296 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

Similar species: 2166 Campion.

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widely distributed species in Britain, the larva feeding on the ripening seeds of various campions (Silene spp.). In Dorset, the moth is at low density but is more widespread and marginally more frequent than the Campion²¹⁶⁶, which it resembles. It occurs on all soil types, most frequently on chalky soils, but also on sandy soil where its foodplant is likely to be red campion (Silene dioica). The moth is double-brooded in the county, the generations overlapping, and the peak of the first brood is fifty percent more numerous than that of the second brood.

The moth is similar to the Campion²¹⁶⁶. Diagnostics include: reniform and orbicular stigmata discrete and not joined; forewings not suffused with purple.

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