Diet Overlap

Colotois pennaria (Feathered Thorn)
Lacanobia thalassina (Pale-shouldered Brocade)

Common Diet

Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Pyrus communis (common pear)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
Sefton Coast
South Solway Mosses
The Broads
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