Wood Tiger
Parasemia plantaginis
ErebidaeABH 72.025 B&F 2056This always seems to have been a scarce and local species. It has been lost from the Quantocks (last record 1970). On Exmoor it is regularly recorded from Haddon Hill as a by-product of butterfly transect recording there, with a scattering of records from elsewhere. On Mendip it occurs in a cluster of nearby species-rich grassland sites - Westbury Beacon, Draycott Sleights, Ubley Warren and Priddy Mineries.
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