Status
.....Primarily regarded by most authorities as a
migrant, despite the possibility of this moth being resident in the
Breckland district of East Anglia. The number of reports from southern
counties has increased in recent years and before 2022,
Nottinghamshire's only records were of singles
attracted to MV light at Broadholme on August 22nd 2003
(Gray, M.) and Elkesley on July 30th 2019
(Coombes, P.).
2022 saw an unprecidented number of records both nationally and locally
to VC56 Nottinghamshire. There were at least four recorded at Broadholme
from September 1st (Gray, M.) three from the Eakring area on
September 2nd and 4th (Pendleton, T.A.) and singles recorded at
Underwood on September 3rd (Hector Brown, K.)
and from at least one south Nottinghamshire site, but there have
doubtless been a number of other records.
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. |
