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National Status: Local

Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 17-20mm.

Foodplant: Traveller's-joy, Clematis.

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	1983	1905
Year last recorded	2011	1989	2011
Number of records	714	2	1432
Number of individuals	1037	2	2078
Unique positions	139	2	282
Unique locations	110	1	222
Adult records	662	2	1328
Immature records	1	0	2

For the region, we have a total of 1432 records from 222 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A locally common species in southern Britain, very local in northern England, the larva feeding on traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba), and abroad also on Ranunculaceae species. In Dorset, the moth is found wherever traveller's joy grows in woods, plantations and hedges, mostly on soils with high calcium content.

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