Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common and thinly distributed resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Sep-Nov.

Forewing: 17-20mm

Foodplant: Monterey Cypress, Lawson's Cypress, Leyland Cypress, Juniper

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	1959	1975	1959
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	1408	81	2978
Number of individuals	3120	135	6510
Unique positions	116	12	256
Unique locations	99	11	220
Adult records	1206	79	2570
Immature records	2	1	6

For the region, we have a total of 2978 records from 220 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1959.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A relatively recent colonist of England, first recorded on the Isle of White in 1951 and now found as far north as Lancashire, the larva feeding on cypress (Cupressussuga spp.). In Dorset, the first record was of eight moths trapped at Durlston in the first week of October 1959. The following year, it was found at Studland and over the next ten years it moved rapidly northwards and westwards to colonise much of the county. It is common wherever monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa), leyland cypress (x Cupressocyparis leylandii) and lawson's cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) has been planted in hedges. The moth is found in Iberia, France and Belgium.

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