Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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National Status: Local Local Status: Very rare migrant/wanderer. No recent record. Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation Flight time: One generation, Jul-Aug Forewing: 14-15mm. Foodplant: Wood Small-reed, other grasses. |
Record breakdown:
VC9 | Region | |
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Year first recorded | 1935 | 1935 |
Year last recorded | 1935 | 1935 |
Number of records | 1 | 2 |
Number of individuals | 1 | 2 |
Unique positions | 1 | 2 |
Unique locations | 1 | 2 |
Adult records | 1 | 2 |
Immature records | 0 | 0 |
For the region, we have a total of 2 records from 2 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1935.
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Species Account
Similar species: 2439 Plusia festucae (Gold Spot).
For further information refer UK Moths.
Davey, P., 2009: A local marshland and occasional upland species restricted to East Anglia, northern England and southern Scotland, with isolated records elsewhere, the larva feeding on marshland grasses and plants. There is one record from Dorset: Bryanstone, on 17 August 1935 (D Hervey coll.)
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