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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Fairly common but thinly distributed resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jul, (Aug).

Forewing: 16-19mm.

Foodplant: Broadleaved trees.

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	1955	1983	1955
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	544	36	1160
Number of individuals	927	49	1952
Unique positions	190	8	396
Unique locations	148	8	312
Adult records	478	33	1022
Immature records	0	1	2

For the region, we have a total of 1160 records from 312 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1955.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A widespread species in southern Britain, but local in Scotland, the larva feeding on oak (Quercus spp.), beech (Fagus sylvatica), hazel (Corylus avellana) and birch (Betulae spp.), less frequently on other deciduous tree species. In Dorset, the moth is more widespread than the Scarce Silver-lines²⁴²¹, due to the greater availability of food sources, and is usually at low density wherever there are deciduous trees. It rises to frequent in the old oak and birch woods that still remain a feature of the landscape in the north-east of the county. The following record refers to a second brood example trapped at the end of a hot summer: Milton on Stour, on 11 September 2006 (J Burge).

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