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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Scarce and thinly distributed resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, mid Jun-mid Aug.

Forewing: 17-20mm.

Foodplant: Buckthorn.

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	1905	1970	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2004	2011
Number of records	139	4	286
Number of individuals	190	4	388
Unique positions	50	2	104
Unique locations	43	2	90
Adult records	126	4	260
Immature records	2	0	4

For the region, we have a total of 286 records from 90 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A species restricted to England and Wales, the larva feeding on buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica). In Dorset, the moth is local and at low density, and occupies similar habitats to the Brown Scallop¹⁷⁹¹. This species is fairly regularly recorded from just one site on sandy soil, Hurn. Here the species is associated with alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus) - see also Brown Scallop¹⁷⁹¹.

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