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Mere Wainscot
Photedes fluxa (Hübner, 1809)
Noctuidae: Xyleninae
2349 / 73.145
Photo © Jim Swalwell,  22/07/2020 - Cranwich Camp Track

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Small Wainscot
Denticucullus pygmina
Concolorous
Photedes extrema
Forewing: 12-15mm.
Flight: One generation July-Aug.
Foodplant:   Wood Small-reed.
Red List: Least Concern (LC)
GB Status: Common
Former Status: Nationally Scarce B
Verification Grade:  Adult: 2
Status
Local.
Open areas in woodland, fens, marshes, reed-beds and ditch-banks.

Variable ground colour, but usually displaying distinctively darker veins on the forewing.

Recorded in 47 (64%) of 74 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1873.
Last Recorded in 2023.

Latest 10 Records
Date#VC10kArea
11/08/2023+28TL78Weeting Heath (Gravelpit Wood)
11/08/2023228TL99Thompson Water
11/08/2023128TF63Snettisham
09/08/2023+28TL78Weeting Heath (Gravelpit Wood)
09/08/2023128TL79Mundford
03/08/2023128TF63Snettisham
01/08/2023128TF63Snettisham
30/07/2023128TF51Walpole Highway
29/07/2023227TG10Wymondham
29/07/2023128TF90Watton
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