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.....An
adventive/accidental species with few UK records.
Although recorded in the UK as a migrant, most records
are the result of accidental importation on cut flowers
or house plants from southern Europe. There are four Nottinghamshire
records, with the first being found freshly emerged on
the skirting board of a Mansfield nursing home and
believed to have originated from a larva brought in with
a bunch of cut flowers on October 14th 2011 (Pendleton, T.A. and Pendleton,
D.T.). There have
since been records of singles to MV light at Misterton in
2013 (Lee, P.) and Market Warsop on September 1st
2018 (Pendleton, T.A.
and Pendleton, D.T.) and Market Warsop again on October 7th 2023
(Pendleton, T.A.).
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