Grey Scalloped Bar Dyscia fagaria
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Grey Scalloped Bar Dyscia fagaria

70.292 BF1969

(Thunberg, 1784)

Wingspan 31-40 mm.

Inhabiting open moorland, heathland and peat bogs, this species is locally distributed mainly in the north of England and Wales, in Scotland and in Ireland. It also occurs locally in the very south of England.

It flies in June and July, sometimes earlier in the south.

The larval foodplants are heather (Calluna) and heath (Erica).

Flight period

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