73.068 .... B&F 2245
Green-brindled Crescent Allophyes oxyacanthae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Status .....Presumed to be a fairly common moth at many sites across Nottinghamshire. There is currently just one post-1990 Sherwood Forest NNR record, in October 2010.
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Photographed at Lound Wood October 2013
 
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Photographed at Lound Wood September 2010
 
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Brown form Allophyes oxyacanthae ab. capuncina, photographed at Gamston Wood October 2013
 
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Photographed at Lound Wood October 2010
 
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Early stages                            
Young larvae (12-15mm length). Photographed on Blackthorn Prunus spinosa, Eakring Meadows April 2023.
 
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Full-grown larva. Photographed on Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna at Dukes Wood May 2022
 
 
Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Green-brindled Crescent
 
 
 
 
The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - Trevor and Dilys Pendleton. Lound Moth Group. Colin Watkin. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Phil Lee. Sean Tobin. Sherwood Forest Rothamsted trap results 1986-1990. Tim Sexton. Robert and Jill Carlyle. NBGRC. Sherwood Forest Invertebrate Directory 2014. Martin Gray. Meg Skinner. Graham Birkett. Ian Blackmore-Allen. Iain Leach and Kate Harte (Budby South Forest Moth Trapping Results). Tom Shields. Jason and Lily Reece. Andy Ashley. Agnes Kiemel.

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Updated January 2024

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