Viper's Bugloss (Hadena irregularis)


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Viper's Bugloss
Hadena irregularis (Hufnagel, 1766)
Noctuidae : Hadeninae

2168 / 73.287

Photo © Jim Wheeler, West Harling Heath 1964 - Durrant collection - Norwich Castle Museum. (displayed with the kind permission of Tony Irwin, Norwich Castle Museum)

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Similar Species
Tawny Shears Hadena perplexa

Dusky Sallow
Eremobia ochroleuca

Forewing:	14-15mm.
Flight:	One generation May-July.
Foodplant:	Spanish Catchfly.
Red List:	Regionally Extinct (RE)
GB Status:	Extinct
Verification Grade: Adult: 3

Status
Extinct former Breckland resident.
Last record was of larvae at Icklingham, Suffolk, in 1968.

Verification Grade Comment: Extinct.

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 3 (4%) of 74 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1873.
Last Recorded in 1964.

Latest 10 Records
Date	#	VC	10k	Area
02/06/1964	1	28	TL98	West Harling Heath
30/06/1962	1	28	TL88	Thetford
10/06/1962	2	28	TL88	Thetford
1961 to 1981	+	28	TL98	Brettenham / Harling
1950 to 1951	+	28	TL89	Bodney / Lynford
1940 to 1960	+	28	TL88	Thetford
1900	1	28	TL88	Thetford
1873 to 1913	+	28	TL88	Thetford
1873 to 1913	+	28	TL88	Thetford

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