Diet Overlap

Colotois pennaria (Feathered Thorn)
Trichiura crataegi (Pale Eggar)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Eryri/ Snowdonia
Isle of Portland to Studland Cliffs
Morecambe Bay
South Solway Mosses
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham

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