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Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

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.

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Record breakdown:

	VC9	Region
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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