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Actinotia polyodon (Clerck, 1759)
Noctuidae: Xyleninae
2097 / 73.111
Photo © Brian Jones,  3/6/2010 Czech Republic

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Similar Species: None
Forewing: 13-15mm.
Flight: Two generations May-Aug.
Foodplant:   St John's-worts.
Red List:
GB Status: Immigrant
Verification Grade:  Adult: 3
Status
Rare immigrant to Britain only recorded around 20 times. The first recorded British specimen was taken at Yarmouth in June 1839. One in 1892 outside Norwich and on the St. Nicholas lightship moored off Gorleston in 1938!

"A very beautiful specimen of Noctua perspicillaris, now in my collection, was taken two years ago in a garden in this town, at the end of the month of June." C.J. Paget. Yarmouth, 1841. [Ent. 1. 128. (1840-1842)]

(=perspicillaris Linnaeus, 1761)

Recorded at Eccles on Sea - 7th Aug 1997 and again at the same site on 26th May 2018! (N. Bowman)

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 3 (4%) of 74 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1839.
Last Recorded in 2018.
Additional Stats

Latest 10 Records
Date#VC10kArea
26/05/2018127TG42Eccles
07/08/1997127TG42Eccles
1938127TG50Yarmouth
1892127TG20Norwich (Earlham)
June 1839127TG50Great Yarmouth
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