Diet Overlap

Amphipyra pyramidea (copper underwing)
Phlogophora meticulosa (Angle Shades Moth)

Common Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Buddleja davidii (orange eye butterflybush)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Ligustrum vulgare (lilac)
Lonicera periclymenum (European honeysuckle)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)

Common Habitat

Avon Gorge Woodlands
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Morecambe Bay
Sefton Coast
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
South Solway Mosses

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández