Diet Overlap

Electrophaes corylata (Broken-barred Carpet Moth)
Amphipyra pyramidea (copper underwing)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Crataegus laevigata palmstruchii (Midland Hawthorn)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)

Common Habitat

Avon Gorge Woodlands
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Morecambe Bay
Sefton Coast
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
South Solway Mosses
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham
West Midlands Mosses

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ecology of Commanster
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández