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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 11-13mm.

Foodplant: Pedunculate Oak, birches, Hazel, Hawthorn and sallows.

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	1970	1970	1970
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	1175	51	2452
Number of individuals	1675	54	3458
Unique positions	216	10	452
Unique locations	166	11	354
Adult records	1042	49	2182
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 2452 records from 354 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1970.

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Species Account

Similar species: 2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis (Fan-foot).

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widespread species in England and Wales, more local in Scotland, the larva feeding on the living, withered and fallen leaves of oak (Quercus spp.), and other trees, and bramble (Rubus fruticosus). In Dorset, the moth is frequent to common in deciduous scrub and wooded habitats. The national norm is for a single brood between mid-June and early August, but an additional bivoltine cycle is suspected commencing late-May and ending in late August. The following record refers to a very late individual trapped at a time of notable immigrant activity. The date is discussed in the account of the Dusky-lemon Sallow²²⁷⁵: Hurn, at MV light on 14 October 2001 (M Jeffes).

The moth is similar to Fan-foot²⁴⁸⁹. Diagnostics include: a straight innermost cross-line; outermost cross-line bisects apex; 25% smaller in size.

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