Diet Overlap

Phigalia pilosaria (Pale Brindled Beauty)
Poecilocampa populi (December Moth)

Common Diet

Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)
Fraxinus excelsior (European ash)
Populus tremula (European aspen)
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn)
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
Salix caprea (goat willow)

Common Habitat

Cwm Doethie – Mynydd Mallaen
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
Roudsea Wood and Mosses
Solent Maritime
South Solway Mosses
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants