Dentated Pug

    Anticollix sparsata

    GeometridaeABH 70.129 B&F 1863

    Nationally scarce and very local, with strongholds in the Norfolk Broads, Cambridgeshire fens, New Forest and east Dorset. A species of woodland and scrub in fens, marshes and along river banks, where the larval foodplant, Yellow Loosestrife, grows. Only one modern record in the county, at Burnett, west of Bath, in June 2009.  Perhaps searching stands of Yellow Loosestrife in the Avalon marshes in June and July could produce more records - it was known from this area in the 1930s and 1940s.

    Adult Verification Grade: 2