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Spotted Sulphur
Acontia trabealis (Scopoli, 1763)
Noctuidae: Acontiinae
2414 / 73.029
Photo © Jim Wheeler,  Thetford, 1932 [Elgood Collection @ Wisbech & Fenland Museum] (displayed with the kind permission of Wisbech & Fenland Museum 2010)

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Similar Species: None
Forewing: 10-11mm.
Flight: One generation May-July. (Aug)
Foodplant:   Field Bindweed.
Red List: Regionally Extinct (RE)
GB Status: Extinct
Former Status: Extinct
Verification Grade:  Adult: 3
Status
Presumed extinct.
Recorded at various Breck sites from 1847 until 1930, after which it became progressively scarce.
Last reported in Suffolk June 1960.

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 6 (8%) of 74 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1871.
Last Recorded in 1950.

Latest 10 Records
Date#VC10kArea
1950 to 1951+28TL89Bodney / Lynford
July 1947128TF70Boughton / Stoke Ferry
1940128TF70Beachamwell / Oxborough
1940128TL89Bodney / Lynford
July 1932128TL88Thetford
July 1932128TL78Brandon
1911128TL88Thetford
1873 to 1913+28TL99Merton
1873 to 1913+28TL78Brandon
1873 to 1913+28TL88Thetford
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