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Sandhill Rustic

Luperina nickerlii

Checklist Number
73.132 [B&F: 2354]

Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification

Classification

Family:Noctuidae
Subfamily:Xyleninae
Genus:Luperina
Species:nickerlii
Authority:(Freyer, 1845)

Represented in Britain by four allopatric subspecies, all restricted to sandy and rocky coasts. Subspecies guennei is a vulnerable Red Data Book species known from Anglesey and several other places along the coast of North Wales, and from Lancashire. Subspecies knilli is an endangered Red Data Book found along the cliffs of the Dingle peninsula in Co. Kerry. Subspecies leechi is an endangered Red Data Book species, known from a single strip of shingly sand about 400 m by 200 m in south-west Cornwall. Subspecies demuthi occurs along the north Kent from Faversham to the Isle of Sheppey, and on the Essex coast north to Aldeburgh, Suffolk. In Hampshire one taken at Farringdon in the north of the county in 1950, a presumed immigrant, is the only record for the county. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 32-42 mm. Depending on the subspecies, the larva feeds on Common Couch, Red Fescue, Common Saltmarsh-grass, Reflexed Saltmarsh-grass and Bulbous Meadow-grass.

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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Larval

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VC12 North Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Farringdon (SU73)22/09/1950-H S RobinsonAdult