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Status: RDB3
Notes:
A rare Red Data Book species, in broad-leaved woodland and woodland clearings, in southern England, priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. About 20 records from south and east coasts of England are presumed immigrants. In Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, has been recorded on about ten occasions on the south-east coast of vc10 and vc11, mostly since 1999. Wingspan 29-30mm. Its light-coloured fasciae separate it from all other British Hypeninae (MBGBI Vol 10). Larva feeds on Pedunculate Oak, Sessile Oak and Beech, over-wintering as a pupa.
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