Diet Overlap

Phigalia pilosaria (Pale Brindled Beauty)
Acronicta tridens (Dark Dagger)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Prunus domestica (plum)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Breckland
Cwm Doethie – Mynydd Mallaen
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Morecambe Bay
Solent Maritime
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