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National Status: Nb

Local Status: Very rare and very local resident.

Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation

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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	1934	1983	1934
Year last recorded	2011	2000	2011
Number of records	52	3	110
Number of individuals	75	9	168
Unique positions	46	3	98
Unique locations	34	3	74
Adult records	50	3	106
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 110 records from 74 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1934.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A local species in England, the larva feeding on marsh cinquefoil (Potentilla palustris). The moth, unlike other Waves, has purple and gold hues throughout, and at first glance might be mistaken for the pyralid micromoth Hypsopygia costalis¹⁴¹³. In Dorset, the Purple-bordered Gold is very local and colonises mire habitat and the edges of ponds or flooded pits on sandy soil where its foodplant grows. It has been found in twenty localities across the Poole Basin including: Winfrith Heath, Trigon Heath, Morden Bog, Canford Heath, Hartland Moor, Studland, Holt Heath, Parley Common, Matchams and Town Common. The moth is attracted to light, but, in the author's experience, may more often be seen during the dusk and dawn periods as it flies over its habitat. Most of the existing localities hosting the species are on SSSIs, so threats to the species in Dorset are considered minimal, providing conservation agencies maintain good stocks of marsh cinquefoil plants at the respective sites.

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