Nationally scarce (Nb) in pine woodland and on heathland throughout the British Isles. In Hampshire found mainly in the New Forest where, by dint of hard searching, hollowed-out, resinous buds on the lateral shoots of small Scots pine trees, which hold the larva, can be located — there are very few records in Hampshire outside the New Forest, including just one from north Hampshire. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 11-16 mm. Distinguished from Clavigesta sylvestrana by the light tawny-brown coloration of the labial palps, head, thorax and tegulae, which in C. sylvestrana are grey [Bradley]. Larva feeds on buds of Scots Pine.
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Detail records |
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VC11 South Hampshire |
Stoney Cross, New Forest (SU21) | 30-Mar-1991 | one | Langmaid, JR; Goater, B | Larval |
Sparsholt (SU43) | 28-May-1992 | one | Dobson, Tony | Adult |
Sandy Down (SZ39) | 1998 | - | Budd, Philip | - |
Roydon Common (SU30) | 1998 | - | Budd, Philip | - |
Southsea (SZ69) | 14-May-1998 | two | Langmaid, John | Adult |
Roydon Woods HWT Reserve (SZ39) | 20-May-1998 | - | Budd, PA | Adult |
Roydon Common (SU30) | 1999 | - | Budd, Philip | - |
Town Common (SZ19) | 05-Jul-2003 | one | Budd, Philip | Adult |
Chandlers Ford (SU42) | 23-Jun-2005 | one | Elliott, B | Adult |
Cosham (SU60) | 23-Jul-2005 | one | Jennings, TJ | Adult |
Oxenbourne Down (SU71) | 24-May-2010 | one | Davis, Tony | Adult |
Chewton Common (SZ29) | 14-May-2011 | one | Budd, Philip | Adult |
Christchurch (SZ29) | 26-Jun-2011 | one | Chapman, Robert | Adult |
Ashurst, NF (SU31) | 10-Jun-2015 | one | Godfrey, Keith | Adult |
Foxbury (SU31) | 21-Jul-2015 | - | Baker, L | Adult |
Foxbury (SU31) | 21-Jul-2015 | - | Wild Newforest | - |
Merritown Heath (SZ19) | 26-May-2017 | one | Foot, D | Adult |
Botley Wood (SU50) | 15-May-2018 | one | Opie, Maurice | Adult |
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VC12 North Hampshire |
Rye (SU75) | 06-May-1995 | one | Dobson, Tony | Adult |
Liss Forest (SU72) | 10-May-2020 | one | Moore, Richard J | Adult |
Liss Forest (SU72) | 10-May-2020 | one | Moore, Richard J | Adult |
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