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Ethmia bipunctella

Checklist Number
33.006 [B&F: 0720]

Verification
Record will be accepted (subject to date and location checks)

Classification

Family:Ethmiidae
Subfamily:Ethmiinae
Genus:Ethmia
Species:bipunctella
Authority:(Fabricius, 1775)

Nationally scarce (Nb) on shingle beaches in parts of south-eastern England, mostly on the coast from east Kent to east Sussex, but also in the majority of the counties south of a line from the Bristol Channel to The Wash, inland records are perhaps the result of immigration. In Hampshire a very scarce species on the coast, with only one inland record, at Winchester in 1990. On the Isle of Wight, recorded for the first time at Freshwater in 1996, with another close-by in 2003 and sporadically since. Wingspan 18-28 mm. Larva feeds on Viper's Bugloss, living between flowers and leaves spun together with silk, over-wintering as a pupa.

The abundance in each month is indicated as follows:

No records
Very occasional
Irregular
Uncommon
Off-peak, but not unusual
Off-peak, but not unusual
Main flight time
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Adult
Larval

Records by week (adult)

Records by week (larval)

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VC10 Isle of Wight

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Freshwater (SZ38)21/08/1996oneSam Knill-JonesAdult
Totland (SZ38)07/08/2003oneSam Knill-JonesAdult
Bonchurch (SZ57)09/05/2011oneJames HalseyAdult
Ventnor (SZ57)12/08/2012oneFred WoodworthAdult
Bonchurch (SZ57)23/07/2018oneJames HalseyAdult
Bonchurch (SZ57)20/06/2020oneJames HalseyAdult
Shanklin (SZ58)25/06/2020oneIain OutlawAdult
Shanklin (SZ58)01/07/2020oneIain OutlawAdult

VC11 South Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Highcliffe (SZ29)16/08/1983oneE H WildAdult
Winchester (SU43)11/10/1990oneD H SterlingAdult
Southsea (SZ69)31/07/1994oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Southsea (SZ69)19/08/1996oneJ R LangmaidAdult
Christchurch (SZ29)10/10/2005oneRobert A ChapmanAdult
Southsea (SZ69)13/07/2013oneJeff GoodridgeAdult