Key to Text Moths of Northamptonshire

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  Barred Umber Plagodis pulveraria  
         
  Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Very local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in May and June.

Localities: Hazelborough Wood, Pentmore Wood and Greatworth.

Observations: Always uncommon, now only recorded in the south of the county.  The Greatworth record was of a singleton taken in a garden light trap in 2006. Undiscovered colonies could still be present in unworked southern woodlands.

L.O.N.: 1903. Badby and Weedon.

First Record: 1902, Victoria County History.