Diet Overlap

Selenia tetralunaria (Purple Thorn)
Eriogaster lanestris (Small Eggar)

Common Diet

Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Alnus incana (gray alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Fenland
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses
Lizard Point
Lyme Bay and Torbay
Morecambe Bay
North Somerset and Mendip Bats
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
Solent Maritime
The Lizard
The New Forest

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