Diet Overlap

Electrophaes corylata (Broken-barred Carpet Moth)
Erannis defoliaria (Mottled Umber Moth)

Common Diet

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

Common Habitat

Avon Gorge Woodlands
Breckland
Burnham Beeches
Cwm Doethie – Mynydd Mallaen
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Isles of Scilly Complex
Loch Etive Woods
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Pavements
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
South Solway Mosses
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham
West Midlands Mosses
Witherslack Mosses

Attributes / relations provided by
1Ecology of Commanster
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
3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants