Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Scarce and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jul-Sep.

Forewing: 20-24mm.

Foodplant: Bulrush and Lesser Bulrush.

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	1895	1985	1895
Year last recorded	2011	2008	2011
Number of records	296	17	626
Number of individuals	285	20	610
Unique positions	63	10	146
Unique locations	60	8	136
Adult records	256	17	546
Immature records	5	0	10

For the region, we have a total of 626 records from 136 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1895.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A local species throughout England and Wales, the larva feeding in the stems of bulrush (Typha spp.). In Dorset, bulrush is a rapid coloniser of nutrient-rich ponds, flooded pits and ditches, and is found locally in most of the county's river systems. "In my opinion, to be obtained in any place where bulrush has been established for any length of time." (W Parkinson Curtis manuscript). The following light trap records denote a flight period extending into the autumn in some years: Iwerne Minster, two on 13 October 1955, two on 9 November 1955 (H Moore), West Bexington, on 9 October 1996 (R Eden), Furzebrook, on 20 October 1975 (Professor N Webb), Holton Heath Marsh, two on 10 October 1994 (P Davey), Gaunts Common, on 12 October 1996 (P Davey), Hengistbury Head, female on 18 October 2003 (M Jeffes).

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