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Oak Rustic
Dryobota labecula (Esper, 1788)
Noctuidae: Xyleninae
2246a / 73.223

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Forewing: 12-15mm
Flight: One generation, October to December
Foodplant:   Evergreen (Holm) Oak
Red List: Least Concern (LC)
GB Status: Nationally Scarce / Immigrant
Former Status: Recent colonist / Suspected immigrant
Verification Grade:  Adult: 3
Status
Recent colonist / Suspected immigrant in the UK, probable future Norfolk resident. (Listed as a Nationally Scarce recent colonist in the 2019 Fox report.)

Very late flight period from October to December.

Recorded on the Isle of Wight, 15th October 1999. Increasingly recorded in the following years predominantly along the south coast, with records north to Suffolk in 2018. Inland records also show the species is slowly spreading north, with recent records in Northants, and new for Cambridgeshire also in 2021.

New for Norfolk in 2021 at Ingoldisthorpe VC28 (R. Roche, 08/11/21) and at Yarmouth VC27 (W. Hampton, 13/11/21)

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 13 (18%) of 74 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 2021.
Last Recorded in 2023.

Latest 10 Records
Date#VC10kArea
20/11/2023127TG51Scratby
15/11/2023227TG24Overstrand
30/10/2023128TF64Hunstanton
27/10/2023127TG14Sheringham / Beeston
27/10/2023127TG41Filby
26/10/2023127TG14Sheringham / Beeston
26/10/2023128TF74Holme NNR
26/10/2023127TG14Sheringham
22/10/2023127TG41Filby
18/10/2023127TG42Eccles
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