Status
Widespread and increasingly recorded in Norfolk in recent years.
Nationally Scarce, one of several confusingly similar gelechiids.
Dissection recommended if a moth is too worn to enable any/all of the critical features to be seen.
First modern day record of a single specimen recorded at Dersingham Bog in July 2011, followed by another specimen taken at Salhouse Broad in August that year.
Several confirmed specimens taken in recent years.
Considered a declining species throughout the UK.
[MBGBI vol 4(2) p233]Recorded in 32 (43%) of 74 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1874.
Last Recorded in 2023. |