Yorkshire Status: Scarce and local resident.

Whilst Varied Coronet is becoming more common and expanding its range in the county, the rather similar Marbled Coronet remains very local and reported in small numbers from widely scattered sites on calcareous soils. It has probably never been a common moth in the county, and in 1883 Porritt described it as "very local". Some years we receive hardly any records at all, whilst in other years, records can be into double figures. It can be encountered in calcareous areas all across the county, but particularly in the north-east of VC61 and the south-east of VC62 where the larvae feed on sea campion and bladder campion. 96% of our records are of single moths, so either it does not come strongly to light, or else it is just antisocial. Nationally, it appears to have been lost from many inland sites and it is doing better in coastal areas. No doubt the "tidying up" of our countryside is removing bladder campion. Do not mistake this species for the commoner Varied Coronet.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: An inhabitant of chalk and limestone areas. Well established in the Wolds, and the magnesian limestone belt in the centre of the County but very local or vagrant elsewhere.

Recorded in 61 (31%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1857. Last Recorded in 2023. Additional Stats

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