Diet Overlap

Lycia hirtaria (Brindled Beauty Moth)
Anoplus plantaris

Common Diet

Alnus glutinosa (European alder)
Betula pendula (European white birch)
Betula pubescens pubescens (downy birch)
Populus nigra (Lombardy poplar)

Common Habitat

Dorset Heaths
Exmoor Heaths
Fenland
Morecambe Bay Pavements
The New Forest
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham
Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay

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