Diet Overlap

Lycia hirtaria (Brindled Beauty Moth)
Lacanobia contigua (Beautiful Brocade)

Common Diet

Alnus incana (gray alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Filipendula ulmaria (Meadowsweet)
Frangula alnus alnus (Glossy Buckthorn)
Populus tremula (European aspen)
Salix viminalis (basket willow)

Common Habitat

Black Wood of Rannoch
Dorset Heaths
Morecambe Bay Pavements
Solent Maritime
South Dartmoor Woods
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham

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