Diet Overlap

Amphipyra pyramidea (copper underwing)
Gastropacha quercifolia (Lappet)

Common Diet

Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Pyraria irregularis (Common apple)

Common Habitat

Dawlish Warren
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
The Broads
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