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Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: RDB2

Local Status: Very rare migrant/wanderer.

Local Record: Grade 4 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jul-Aug.

Forewing: 14-16mm.

Foodplant: Smooth Tare, Tormentil, Honeysuckle and Traveller's-joy.

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	1995	1995
Year last recorded	1995	1995
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 1995.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: Resident in south-east England on coastal undercliffs and woods inland in Sussex and Kent, otherwise a very rare immigrant, the larva feeding mainly on traveller's-joy (Clematis vitalba) and honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum), and to a lesser extent on various herbaceous plants. This single-brooded species is widespread across Europe, colonising woodland. There is one record from Dorset: Arne Wood, on 26 July 1995 (B Pickess). This individual was trapped at light a time of high migrant activity; see also Satin Lutestring¹⁶⁵⁶ trapped at the same time.

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