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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Unknown as majority undetermined.

Local Record: Grade G See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jul-Aug

Forewing: 11-16mm.

Foodplant: Grasses.

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	1984	1999	1984
Year last recorded	2011	2008	2011
Number of records	798	39	1674
Number of individuals	1527	45	3144
Unique positions	64	7	142
Unique locations	63	7	140
Adult records	729	39	1536
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 1674 records from 140 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1984.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: This species was separated from the Common Rustic²³⁴³ about twenty years ago, and as mentioned above, may only be differentiated with certainty by dissection. This has only been done for two specimens trapped on Portland, and therefore the status of the moth across the county is unknown. The species has a similar life cycle, range and diet to its close relative, and is likely to have an equivalent common and ubiquitous status in the county.

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