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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Jun-Aug.

Forewing: 10-12mm.

Foodplant: Lichens.

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	Region
Year first recorded	1888	2008	1888
Year last recorded	2011	2008	2011
Number of records	374	1	750
Number of individuals	1489	1	2980
Unique positions	93	1	188
Unique locations	77	1	156
Adult records	310	1	622
Immature records	7	0	14

For the region, we have a total of 750 records from 156 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1888.

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Species Account

Similar species: 2035 Round-winged Muslin.

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widely distributed species throughout Britain, but local in the south-east of its range, the larva feeding on small lichens growing on stones and on branches of trees in open situations. In Dorset, the moth is locally abundant along the Purbeck and west Dorset coasts, and on Portland. Elsewhere, the rather scattered nature of the records suggest dispersal from the coast on occasion.

The moth is similar to Round-winged Muslin²⁰³⁵. Diagnostics include: no chequered fringe on the edge of the forewing; a pair of near continuous lines on forewing (not dotted lines); prominent dot less than half-way across forewing close to inner continuous line (not more than half-way across forewing).

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