Yorkshire Status: Local resident.

Pheromone lure: TIP. Try larger gardens, allotments, fruit-farms, with lures on on the branches of the foodplant in June or July in mid to late afternoon.

This is yet another clearwing species where use of pheromone lures has shown it to be much more widespread than originally suspected. In 2023, Records came from 25 sites, nine of which were new. This was by far the best year for this species, most records coming from gardens with currant bushes and almost all were to pheromone lures. It appears that it is widespread in VC61, 62, 63, and the eastern half of VC64. It is either absent from areas to the north and west or else it has not been searched for.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: As with many currant-feeding species, this has become very scarce in recent years probably due to increased use of herbicides. The moths should be looked for in gardens and allotments where the larvae feed in the stems and shoots of black currant, red currant and gooseberry. The adult can be difficult to locate, even if known to be present, and hides on the stems except in bright, warm sunshine (B. MacNulty, pers. comm.). Shown as recorded from all five vice-counties on map 197 in MBGBI 2, the VC62 and VC65 records can be traced to Porritt (1883-86 and 1904) but the VC61 record is not known.

	Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 59 (30%) of 200 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1883.
Last Recorded in 2024.
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