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  Rosy Minor Litoligia literosa  
         
 

B&F: 2342

ABH: 73.171

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Waste ground.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Localities: East Haddon, Pitsford Water, Geddington Chase and Collyweston Quarry.

Observations: The moth was common at light in my former Kettering town garden, but in my current garden about a quarter of a mile away I have only seen it at light three times in twenty years. I have not seen the melanic f. aethalodes in the county.

L.O.N.: 1907. Kettering, Geddington Chase, Northampton. Irregular.

First Record: 1902, Victoria County History.