Diet Overlap

Selenia tetralunaria (Purple Thorn)
Saturnia pavonia (Emperor moth)

Common Diet

Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Alnus incana (gray alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Corylus avellana (common filbert)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Cannock Chase
Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Inverpolly
Isle of Portland to Studland Cliffs
Lizard Point
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
North Norfolk Coast
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau
Solent Maritime
The Lizard
The New Forest
The Wash and North Norfolk Coast
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham
Witherslack Mosses

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