| Sub-family:DEXIINAE |
Tribe: VORIINI |
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| Synonyms: latifrons (Zetterstedt, 1844 - Scopolia) |
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| Shaw & Ford (1991): - |
| Belshaw (1993): Hosts: in Europe 2 records from Mythimna ferrago (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). which usually feeds on grasses.
British distribution: S.England, Midlands (Hereford and Worcs) and Wales (6 lamorgan).
Habitat: woodland (Emden, 1954).
Flight period: 2 periods - late May/early June and August/September (31 records). |
| Tschorsnig (1994): [Wagneria]. Europe to Scandinavia; SH NS RP BW BY NB / CH. Bushes meadows. 2 generations: End May to Early July and Early August to End September. Rare. Leucania ferrago F L. spec. (Noctuidae). |
| JNCC Calypterate Review (1996): DISTRIBUTION Southern England (Cornwall to Kent), northwards to Hereford and Worcester; South Wales: Glamorgan.
HABITAT Broadleaved woodland.
ECOLOGY The larvae have been reared on mainland Europe from Mythimna ferrago (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), the caterpillars of which usually feed on grasses. Adults from May to September, bivoltine.
STATUS There is a recent record from Devon (1978).
THREAT Clearance of woodland for agriculture or intensive forestry.
MANAGEMENT Maintain open rides and clearings in woods, ensuring a wide range of trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses. |
| Shaw & Ford (2000): - |
| Comments: - |
| GBGRB: P |
GBNI: - |
IE: - |
GBCI: - |
| BRC #: 3201 |
BENHS: 1.6 - |
GB Status: |
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| Legend: GBGRB=Great Britain, GBNI=Northern Ireland, IE=Ireland,
GBCI=Channel Islands (P=present or -=absent); BENHS indicates whether the BENHS
collection has it and which draw/column it is in. Status is taken from the JNCC
Calypterate Review (1996) and the JNCC Recorder package (1997). Synonyms were
taken from a number of sources but most notably the most recent Checklist of
British Diptera by Peter Chandler. |
| Acknowledgements: Many thanks to all the authors who let me
use their information to construct this database. If there are spelling mistakes
they were introduced by me during transcription and should not reflect on the
original authors. |
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