Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Nationally Scarce B Local Status: Very rare, no recent record. Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation Flight time: Forewing: 7-12mm. Foodplant: Not proved to breed in Britain. |
Record breakdown:
VC9 | Region | |
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Year first recorded | 1884 | 1884 |
Year last recorded | 1946 | 1946 |
Number of records | 2 | 4 |
Number of individuals | 2 | 4 |
Unique positions | 2 | 4 |
Unique locations | 2 | 4 |
Adult records | 0 | 0 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 |
For the region, we have a total of 4 records from 4 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1884.
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Species Account
Davey, P., 2020: Breckland Plume Crombrugghia distans: A very rare species restricted to the Breck district in East Anglia and a few coastal localities in Kent, the larva feeding mainly on smooth hawk’s-beard Crepis capillaris and reported on mouse-ear hawkweed Pilosella officinarum. In Dorset, there are just two historic records for this species, one from Parley in 1946 (Scarsdale-Brown, S. C.), and a second from Studland in 1884 (Bankes, E. R.), both localities potentially hosting the foodplants and thus this Plume species.
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