Status
.....Very similar to Gold Spot (Plusia festucae)
there are believed to be no recent/confirmed Nottinghamshire records
other than the one illustrated below, which was trapped at MV light at
Broadholme in 2018. Lempke's Gold Spot is unlikely to be overlooked in
Nottinghamshire, as recorders tend to specifically check any Gold Spot
for the possibility of it being this species.
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. |
