Yorkshire Status: rare adventive

You won't find this one in the Field Guide. The A,B&H list has it under appendix A (adventive species) and notes "frequently imported with bananas, neotropical". It has occurred twice in Yorkshire. The first was in 1998 when two were found in a fruit packing warehouse at South Elmsall. The second was in December 2003 when one was found crawling over a bunch of bananas purchased from the Harrogate branch of Asda. The full story is given in Atropos September/October 2004 23:60. The moth is now in the national collection.

	Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 2 (1%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1998. Last Recorded in 2003. Additional Stats

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