Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: RDB1 Local Status: Very rare migrant/wanderer. Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation Flight time: Jun-early Aug. Forewing: 10-11mm. Foodplant: Smooth Tare and Hare's-foot Clover. |
Record breakdown:
VC9 | Region | |
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Year first recorded | 1901 | 1901 |
Year last recorded | 2011 | 2011 |
Number of records | 4 | 8 |
Number of individuals | 4 | 8 |
Unique positions | 4 | 8 |
Unique locations | 3 | 6 |
Adult records | 4 | 8 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 |
For the region, we have a total of 8 records from 6 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1901.
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Species Account
For further information refer UK Moths.
Davey, P., 2009: Resident and rare on coastal sand dunes and shingle beaches in Kent, Suffolk and formerly Essex, otherwise a very rare immigrant, the polyphagous larva feeding on withered leaves of herbaceous plants and grasses. The moth has a mainly southern distribution in Europe where it colonises open dry grassland. In Dorset, three individuals have been recorded on or close to the coast and all are suspected immigrants: Portland, at MV light on 15 July 1994 (M Cade), near Bournemouth, 19 July 1900 (Robertson, 1900, Entomological Record, 12:300, 341), Branksome (All Saint's Fields near Branksome Parish Church) on 18 July 1901 (E Todd).
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