Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Mar-May.

Forewing: 19-23mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees.

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	VC5	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1956	2007	1984	1956
Year last recorded	2011	2010	2011	2011
Number of records	441	2	99	1084
Number of individuals	1039	2	396	2874
Unique positions	103	2	7	224
Unique locations	82	2	7	182
Adult records	421	2	98	1042
Immature records	1	0	1	4

For the region, we have a total of 1084 records from 182 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1956.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A species occurring throughout England and Wales, but more local elsewhere, the larva feeding on a variety of deciduous tree and shrub species. In Dorset, the moth is widespread but rarely common. There is no indication of any favoured habitat from the records available. The larva has been found feeding on sallow (Salix spp.) in Hurn Forest.

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