Status
.....A
regular migrant to south-eastern parts of the UK, but now resident in
many southern counties and in recent years
it has colonised a number of Midlands counties. The
situation regarding White-point in Nottinghamshire is frustratingly
confusing and it seems, hardly likely to improve in the near future.
Presently (at the time of writing) there are three records/claims of White-point in
Nottinghamshire, but none have been officially accepted despite being
widely believed to be this species. These include singles attracted to MV light at Broadholme on August 28th 2008 (Gray,
M.)
and Elkesley on September 12th 2021 (Coombes,
P.), but there is another likely candidate from East Bridgford
trapped on August 31st 2021 (Reece, J. and
Reece, L.). However, there is disagreement regarding the
identities of both the Elkesley and East Bridgford moths.
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. |
