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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: May-Jun and Aug.

Forewing: 4-5mm.

Foodplant: Hart's-tongue Fern.

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	Region
Year first recorded	2000	2000
Year last recorded	2010	2010
Number of records	27	54
Number of individuals	31	62
Unique positions	11	22
Unique locations	10	20
Adult records	20	40
Immature records	6	12

For the region, we have a total of 54 records from 20 sites. Earliest record on file is in 2000.

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Species Account

Similar species: 0199 Psychoides verhuella.

For further information refer UK Moths.

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