Officially regarded as a major rarity in Nottinghamshire with Phil
Lee's Misterton record of 14/07/21 being the first this century. Yet it
is frequent over the border in Lincolnshire. Martin Gray (who's
Broadholme garden is on the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border) has
recorded this moth on no less than ten occasions since 2004, so it
should be expected to occur more frequently than it does, at those sites
in the east of the county. Many thanks go to Phil Lee for allowing the
use of his photograph of the July 2021 individual to be used here.
A note on Broadholme records:
Broadholme is in vice county VC56 of Nottinghamshire (which is covered
by www.eakringbirds.com), but not in the administrative county of
Nottinghamshire on which the county's moth records are based by
the county macromoth recorder. As such, no Broadholme records appear in
any county reports, but they are officially recognised by Butterfly
Conservation as being Nottinghamshire records. |
