Diet Overlap

Phigalia pilosaria (Pale Brindled Beauty)
Selenia tetralunaria (Purple Thorn)

Common Diet

Acer pseudoplatanus (sycamore)
Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Fraxinus excelsior (European ash)
Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Inverpolly
Moray Firth
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