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Twin-spotted Wainscot

Lenisa geminipuncta

Checklist Number
73.139 [B&F: 2370]

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:Lenisa
Species:geminipuncta
Authority:(Haworth, 1809)

Local in reed-beds, marshes, fens and gardens throughout much of southern and eastern England, generally most frequent by the coast. In Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight locally abundant in reed-beds, especially those along the coast at Keyhaven, Lower Test and Titchfield Haven, and extending inland along the valleys of the Avon, Test and Itchen. Wingspan 28-37 mm. Characterised by the narrow reniform stigma, with a small white dot in each half, or sometimes only in dorsal half, and minute orbicular stigma (MBGBI Vol 10). Larva feeds on Common Reed, over-wintering as an egg.

The abundance in each month is indicated as follows:

No records
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Uncommon
Off-peak, but not unusual
Off-peak, but not unusual
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