False Mocha

    Cyclophora porata

    GeometridaeABH 70.035 B&F 1679

    A scarce resident species nationally, and much declined.  A species of woodland. carr and heathland. Larva foodplant is Oak.  Historically rare and local in the county, the only 21st century records have been from the Quantocks, where there was a spate of records in 2015 and 2017.

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