Diet Overlap

Lycia hirtaria (Brindled Beauty Moth)
Lymantria monacha (Black Arches, Nun Moth)

Common Diet

Aesculus hippocastanum (horse chestnut)
Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Castanea sativa (European chestnut)
Crataegus laevigata palmstruchii (Midland Hawthorn)
Fraxinus excelsior (European ash)
Populus tremula (European aspen)
Quercus ilex (Holly Oak)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)

Common Habitat

Avon Gorge Woodlands
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Solent Maritime
South Dartmoor Woods
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
♦ 3Ecology of Commanster