Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Migrant Local Status: Fairly common and mainly coastal migrant. Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation Flight time: Jun-Nov, peak Sep-Oct. Forewing: 13-15mm. Foodplant: No evidence of breeding in Britain. |
Record breakdown:
VC9 | VC11 | Region | |
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Year first recorded | 1900 | 1997 | 1900 |
Year last recorded | 2010 | 2006 | 2010 |
Number of records | 271 | 5 | 552 |
Number of individuals | 489 | 5 | 988 |
Unique positions | 48 | 5 | 106 |
Unique locations | 41 | 4 | 90 |
Adult records | 256 | 5 | 522 |
Immature records | 1 | 0 | 2 |
For the region, we have a total of 552 records from 90 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1900.
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Species Account
For further information refer UK Moths.
Davey, P., 2009: An infrequent immigrant to the coastal counties of southern England, the larva feeding on Oleaceae plants including jasmines (Jasminum spp.), privets (Ligustrum spp.) and olive (Olea europaea), also on strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) in its southern Europe and Mediterranean haunts.
In Dorset this unmistakable and handsome moth has been recorded in nineteen of the past twenty-one years in varying but usually in small numbers, although one hundred and twenty were seen in 2006 and in one case, egg-laying was observed: Preston, female observed ovipositing on Ligustrum ovalifolium on 16 September 2006 (M Forster). The data suggests a bivoltine cycle abroad but with a significantly larger population of second brood examples observed during the autumn.
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