Diet Overlap

Phigalia pilosaria (Pale Brindled Beauty)
Gastropacha quercifolia (Lappet)

Common Diet

Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Frangula alnus alnus (Glossy Buckthorn)
Prunus domestica (plum)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Rhamnus cathartica (Hart's thorn)

Common Habitat

Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Fenland
Solent Maritime
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