Diet Overlap

Phigalia pilosaria (Pale Brindled Beauty)
Xylena exsoleta (Sword-grass)

Common Diet

Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Cwm Doethie – Mynydd Mallaen
Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenland
Inverpolly
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
Roudsea Wood and Mosses
Sefton Coast
The New Forest
Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay

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