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  Barred Chestnut Diarsia dahlii  
         
 

B&F: 2121

ABH: 73.331

Status: Unknown.

Distribution and Abundance: Rare - no modern records

Primary Habitat: Open Woodland.

Flight Period: Uncertain.

Locality: Castor Hanglands.

Observations: The Castor Hanglands record stems from a short series of the moth taken in the 1980’s in the collection of the late Bill Turner. Earlier records are as follows:-
27 August 1972 Broughton (F. Adams), 1960-1969 Bedford Purlieus (Peterborough Museum record) and pre 1950 Peterborough (Peterborough Museum record).

L.O.N.: 1906. Kettering. Once only.

First Record: 1906, Wallis.